It was two decades ago to the day—March 24, 2001—that Mac OS X first became available to users the world over. We're not always big on empty sentimentality here at Ars, but the milestone seemed worthy of a quick note.

Of course, Mac OS X (or macOS 10 as it was later known) didn't quite survive to its 20th birthday; last year's macOS Big Sur update brought the version number up to 11, ending the reign of X.

1 Open a Finder window. 2 Type 'kind:' into the search bar in the upper right. Mac OS X & macOS names. As you can see from the list above, with the exception of the first OS X beta, all versions of the Mac operating system from 2001 to 2012 were all named after big cats.

But despite its double life on x86 and ARM processors and its increasingly close ties to iOS and iPadOS, today's macOS is still very much a direct descendant of that original Mac OS X release. Mac OS X, in turn, evolved in part from Steve Jobs' NeXT operating system—which had recently been acquired by Apple—and its launch was the harbinger of the second Jobs era at Apple.

Cheetah, Mac OS X's initial release, was pretty buggy. But it introduced a number of things that are still present in the operating system today. Those included the dock, which—despite some refinements and added features—is still fundamentally the same now as it ever was, as well as the modern version of Finder. And while macOS has seen a number of UI and design tweaks that have changed over time, the footprints of Cheetah's much-hyped Aqua interface can still be found all over Big Sur.

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OS X brought many new features and technologies we now take for granted, too. For example, it enabled Apple's laptops to wake up from sleep immediately, and it introduced dynamic memory management, among other things.

Mac OS X's greatest impact in retrospect may be in the role it had in inspiring and propping up iOS, which has far surpassed macOS as Apple's most widely used operating system. And indeed, macOS lives in a very different context today than it did in 2001. It was recently bumped from the No.2 operating system spot globally by Google's Chrome OS, ending a very long run for Mac OS as the world's second-most popular desktop operating system in terms of units shipped.

The most popular desktop operating system in 2021 is Windows, just as it was in 2001, but the most popular OS overall is Google's Android, which has dramatically larger market share in the mobile space than iOS does.

So while Mac OS X's influence is profound, it exists today primarily as a support for iOS, which is also itself not the most popular OS in its category. Despite Apple's resounding success in the second Steve Jobs era, as well as in the recent Tim Cook era, the Mac is still a relatively niche platform—beloved by some, but skipped by much of the mainstream.

After 20 years, a lot has changed, but a whole lot has stayed the same.

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top-down indie role-playing game. You have to play as Isaac, a boy hiding in the basement from his mother. God ordered her to sacrifice the boy. To escape, you will need to go through many procedurally-generated levels, destroying enemies with your tears. But remember that each death sends you to the beginning of the level.

Release Date: 4 November 2014
Developer: Nicalis, Inc.
Publisher: Nicalis, Inc.
Genre: Action, RPG
Steam page:https://store.steampowered.com/app/250900/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Rebirth/

The Binding of Isaac Rebirth is the ultimate of remakes with an all-new highly efficient game engine (expect 60fps on most PCs), all-new hand-drawn pixel style artwork, highly polished visual effects, all-new soundtrack and audio by the the sexy Ridiculon duo Matthias Bossi + Jon Evans. Oh yeah, and hundreds upon hundreds of designs, redesigns and re-tuned enhancements by series creator, Edmund McMillen. Did we mention the poop?

Key Features:

✔ 20 Challenge runs
✔ 2-Player local co-op
✔ 4 BILLION Seeded runs!
✔ Over 100 co-op characters
✔ Over 500 hours of gameplay
✔ Over 100 specialized seeds
✔ Analog directional movement and speed
✔ 450+ items, including 160 new unlockables
✔ Tons of feature film quality animated endings
✔ Integrated controller support for popular control pads!

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Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Mac OS 10.8
• Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core 2.0
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Storage: 1 GB
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 and higher, ATI Radeon HD-Series 4650

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