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Developer | Apple Computer |
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OS family | |
Working state | Historic, not supported |
Released to manufacturing | September 13, 2000 |
Platforms | PowerPC |
Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
Default user interface | Aqua |
Preceded by | Mac OS 9 Mac OS X Server 1.0 |
Succeeded by | Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah |
Official website | Apple - Mac OS X at the Wayback Machine (archived November 9, 2000) |
Support status | |
Historic, unsupported as of March 24, 2001. Expired on May 14, 2001. |
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Mac OS X Public Beta (internally code named "Kodiak") was the first publicly available version of Apple Computer's Mac OS X (now named macOS) operating system to feature the Aqua user interface. It was released to the public on September 13, 2000 for US$ 29.95. Its release was significant as the first publicly available evidence of Apple's ability to ship the "next-generation Mac operating system" after the Copland failure. It allowed software developers and early adopters to test a preview of the upcoming operating system and develop software for it before its final release. It is the only public version of Mac OS X to have a code name not based on a big cat until the release of 10.9 Mavericks in 2013. The US version had a build number of 1H39 and the international version had build number 2E14.[1]