[USNA91]

Hi! I've been a PowerBook owner for all of, oh...... four days, so please forgive what will most likely be a series of questions to which your first response will likely be, "DUH!"

What, exactly, is Panther? Is it OS X, some sub-version of it, or something entirely different?

Thanks!


P.S. - Why can't I post images?

[chris v]

for images, use the lower-case brackets around img and /img like this, except without the spaces [ img]yoururl[/img ].

All the point-rleases of OS X have had cat nicknames. I don't recall the exact history but Panther is just the nickname for OS X version 10.3. I think 10.2 was Jaguar. 10.4 will be Tiger.

[cpac]

Originally posted by chris v:
All the point-rleases of OS X have had cat nicknames. I don't recall the exact history but Panther is just the nickname for OS X version 10.3. I think 10.2 was Jaguar. 10.4 will be Tiger.

10.0 = cheetah (it came out fast, many think half-baked)
10.1 = puma
10.2 = jaguar (or as steve pronounced it, jagwire)
10.3 = panther
10.4 = tiger

The code names were just internal references for a while, but then Apple marketing took a liking to them and starting with Jaguar, began marketing each new system release by its code name.

[Mithras]

p.s. to post images, you first need to get them hosted on a web server somewhere. I find http://tinypic.com easy and convenient -- just upload the photo to there, then use the tag {img}http://tinypic.com/blah{/img} to link to the image. (except with square brackets [ ] rather than curly)

[Anubis IV]

Just out of curiosity, does anyone happen to have the codenames for all of the releases prior to OSX? I mean, I've heard a few of them, but I can never keep track of which ones are which...

[Nexus5]

Originally posted by Anubis IV:
Just out of curiosity, does anyone happen to have the codenames for all of the releases prior to OSX? I mean, I've heard a few of them, but I can never keep track of which ones are which...

Source: www.cupertino.de:

System 6
- MultiFinder: Juggler, Oggler, Twitcher (variant of Switcher?)
- System 6.04: Antares
- System 6.05: Big Deal
- System 6.06: SixPack
- System 6.08: Terminator (it terminated the System 6 era)


System 7
- Finder 7.0: Furnishings 2000 (a defunct San Francisco Bay Area furniture store)
- System 7: Blue (System 7 programmers were called "blue meanies"), Big Bang, M80 (a powerful firecracker), Pleiades
- System 7 Tune-Up: 7-Up
- System 7.01: Road Warrior (used in first PowerBooks), Beta Cheese
- System 7.1: Cube-E, I Tripoli (both because the project was to conform to IEEE standards)
- System 7.1 Pro: Jirocho
- System 7.5: Mozart, Capone (Apple hoped that like the gangster, "Capone" would rule over "Chicago", the code name for Windows 95)
- System 7.5 Update 1.0: Danook (from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)
- System 7.5 Update 2.0: Thag (also from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)
- System 7.5.2: Marconi (named after Guglielmo Marconi, 19th century Italian engineer)
- System 7.5.3: Unity (it united all the patches and special software of all models into one update)
- System 7.5.3 Revision 1: Buster (CEO Gil Amelio's high school nickname, used often in later Mac OS versions)
- System 7.53 Revision 2: Son of Buster
- Mac OS 7.6: Harmony
- Mac OS 7.61: Ides of Buster


Mac OS 8
- Mac OS 8: Tempo
- Mac OS 8.1: Bride of Buster
- Mac OS 8.5: Allegro, Scimitar (beta version)
- Mac OS 8.6: Veronica
- Mac OS 9 (?): Sonata


Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Server: Rhapsody
- Mac OS X Server DR2: Titan
- Mac OS X Server 1.0: Mac OS Enterprise ("Enterprise" is also the name of Apple's NeXT division)
- Mac OS X: Cyan (a different "shade" of the Blue Box), Siam (like Siamese twins, Mac OS and Rhapsody will be joined)
- Mac OS X - BlueBox (Mac Emulation Layer for legacy Apps)
- Mac OS X - Mac API's: Carbon (all Mac life will be based on it) - updated subset / superset of MacAPI's
- Mac OS X - Boxless (transparent) BlueBox - Ivory
Atlas -
Hera -
Picasso -


Other OS Projects
- Mac OS for Intel: Star Trek (probably because the Mac OS is boldly going where it has never gone before)
- Follow on to Mac OS for Intel: TNG (for Star Trek the Next Generation)
- Apple/IBM object-oriented OS: Defiant, Pink -- released by IBM as CommonPoint
first System 8: Copland (named after Aaron Copland, musician), Maxwell (internal code name)
- first System 9: Gershwin (named after George Gershwin, musician)
- Copland Interface Project: MUSE (for Maxwell USer Experience)
- CHRP compliant Mac OS 8: Orient Express

[USNA91]

Thanks for the info on Panther.

What I was referring to on posting images is that my Images button doesn't seem to do anything, unlike the List, Quote, Link, and Email buttons.

Any ideas?

[juanvaldes]

No clue never use the buttons. But the place to ask is The feedback forum

[brapper]

oops i did it again...


keep moving on down...

[Anubis IV]

Thanks for the info, Nexus.

[Luca Rescigno]

Another interesting fact about System 7's code name "blue." It originated when Apple was working on a next generation OS that would become System 7. They had two proposed designs - one which was simpler and based more heavily on system 6, with of course the numerous huge improvements that System 7 brought. The other was an ambitious one that would have had protected memory, preemptive multitasking, all that good stuff. Yes, the precursor to Mac OS X had its origins in the pre-System 7 era.

The code name "blue" is because the two proposals were first jotted down on two different colored note cards. System 7's was blue, the proposed next generation system was pink.