These included updates to EtherTalk and TokenTalk, AppleTalk software and LocalTalk hardware for the IBM PC, EtherTalk for Apple's A / UX operating system allowing it to use LaserPrinters and other network resources, and the Mac X. 25 and MacX products.

* Darwin ( operating system ), the Unix base for Apple's Mac OS X operating system

Apple has supported this protocol from Mac OS X 10. 4 onwards, and a Windows driver based on Apple's implementation exists for Windows XP and newer versions.

An update introduced support for the Mac App Store, Apple's digital distribution platform for OS X applications.

It brought developments made in Apple's iOS, such as an easily navigable display of installed applications ( Launchpad ) and ( a greater use of ) multi-touch gestures, to the Mac.

The only remaining widespread uses of the Mach kernel are Apple's Mac OS X and its sibling iOS, which run atop a heavily modified Mach 3 kernel.

The Power Mac went on to become the mainstay of Apple's top-end offerings for twelve years, through a succession of case designs, four major generations of PowerPC chips, and a great deal of press coverage, design accolades, and technical controversy.

In August 2006, the Power Mac's retirement was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference by Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller, making way for its Intel-based replacement, the Mac Pro.

) As the Power Mac was originally intended to be a part of the high end of Apple's product line, for a number of years the company continued to offer less expensive 68k-based computers alongside the more expensive Power Mac lineup.

The Power Mac brand name was used for Apple's high-end tower style computers, targeted primarily at businesses and creative professionals, in differentiation to their more compact " iMac " line ( intended for home use ) and the " eMac " line ( for the education markets ).

The Intel-based successor of the Power Mac is the Mac Pro, in line with the renaming of Apple's professional notebooks from PowerBook to MacBook Pro.

Apple's Cocoa Touch framework, used on its iOS devices, also uses manual reference counting, and does not support automatic garbage collection, though Automatic Reference Counting was added in iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10. 7.

Samba runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as GNU / Linux, Solaris, AIX and the BSD variants, including Apple's Mac OS X Server ( which was added to the Mac OS X client in version 10. 2 ).

Apple's rendering approach on Mac OS X ignores almost all the hints in a TrueType font, while Microsoft's ClearType ignores many hints, and according to Microsoft, works best with " lightly hinted " fonts.

Apple's Apple Remote Desktop client management system can be used to send Wake-on-LAN packets, but there are also freeware and shareware Mac OS X applications available.

Apple's Mac OS X v10. 3 ( Panther ) and v10. 4 ( Tiger ) include X11. app, based on XFree86 4. 3 and X11R6. 6, with better Mac OS X integration.

Third-party servers under Mac OS 7, 8 and 9 included Apple's MacX and White Pine Software's eXodus.

MACLISP was named for Project MAC, and is unrelated to Apple's Macintosh (" Mac ") computer, which it predates by many years.

* Mac OS, an operating system of Apple's Macintosh

* Mac, a character from Apple's " Get A Mac " ad campaign, representing a Macintosh computer

* Apple's listings of 3rd party software for OS X

SSH is a protocol that can be used for many applications across many platforms including most Unix variants ( Linux, the BSD's including Apple's OS X, & Solaris ), as well as Microsoft Windows.

Apple's OS X and iOS are direct descendants of NeXTSTEP, through the OPENSTEP lineage.

The high resolution TextEdit 1. 5 icon found in Mac OS X versions starting with 10. 5 ( Leopard ) features an extract from Apple's Think Different ad campaign.

They used it to accelerate multimedia applications such as QuickTime, iTunes and key parts of Apple's Mac OS X including in the Quartz graphics compositor.

The decreasing cost of display equipment and processors made it practical to provide graphical user interfaces for many operating systems, such as the generic X Window System that is provided with many Unix systems, or other graphical systems such as Microsoft Windows, the RadioShack Color Computer's OS-9 Level II / MultiVue, Commodore's AmigaOS, Apple's Mac OS, or even IBM's OS / 2.

Classic was created as a key element of Apple's strategy to replace the " classic " Mac OS ( versions 9 and below ) with Mac OS X as the standard operating system ( OS ) used by Macintosh computers by eliminating the need to use the older OS directly.

The Objective-C code base was re-introduced with some modifications to desktop application developers as Core Data, part of Apple's Cocoa API, with the release of Mac OS X Tiger in April 2005.

All versions of Apple's operating systems had the same behaviour, until Mac OS X version 10. 6, which now uses Megabytes for all file and disk sizes, so it reports a 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > byte file as 1 MB.

The release of QuarkXPress version 5 in 2002 led to a conflict with Apple's user base, as QuarkXPress did not support Mac OS X, while InDesign 2. 0, launched in the same week, did.

After some uncertainty about the future of AppleScript on Apple's next generation OS, the move to Mac OS X ( around 2002 ) and its Cocoa frameworks greatly increased the usefulness and flexibility of AppleScript.

) and the interpreter name being suffixed to the command name, a practice common on systems like Windows and Mac OS X, which rely on globally set associations between filename extension and interpreter, but sharply deprecated in UNIX-derived systems like Linux and Apple's Mac OS X, where the interpreter is normally specified as a header in the script ( Shebang ( Unix )).

* Google's Android and Apple's iOS in the mobile operating system market.

For example, Apple's iPhone 4 contains a quadband chipset operating on 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz, allowing usage in the majority of countries where UMTS-FDD is deployed.

386BSD public releases ended in 1997 since code is now available from the many 386BSD-derived operating systems today, along with several derivatives thereof ( such as Apple's Darwin and OpenBSD ).

This was several years prior to successful GUIs on the 16-bit IBM PC class machines, and many years prior to properly working multi-tasking, multi-user, access-controlled operating systems on IBM PC type machines or on any of Apple's machines.

HFS drew heavily upon Apple's first hierarchical SOS operating system for the failed Apple III, which also served as the basis for hierarchical filing systems on the Apple IIe and Apple Lisa.

Since Apple's and Microsoft's operating systems supported different character sets in the platform related fonts, some foundries used expert fonts in a different way.

Apple's abandoned Copland operating system is an example of this.

Apple's iTunes software can be used to transfer music to the devices from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Mac OS had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984, and the family was backward compatible, so OS X supported an emulated version 9 until version 10. 5.

First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10. 3 " Panther ".

* iOS, Apple's mobile operating system that includes a version of Safari built-in

The most common mobile operating systems ( OS ) used by modern smartphones include Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Nokia's Symbian, RIM's BlackBerry OS, Samsung's Bada, Microsoft's Windows Phone, Hewlett-Packard's webOS, and embedded Linux distributions such as Maemo and MeeGo.

Apple's Mac operating systems have provided OS-level color management since 1993, through ColorSync.

Different font backends can be used, allowing cross-platform support, so that Pango-rendered text will appear similar under different operating systems, such as Linux, Apple's Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows.

The software comes built-in with Apple's OS X and iOS operating systems.

It has also been made widely familiar as being featured in a photograph in the desktop picture art of Apple's OS X computer operating system, labeled simply as " Golden Palace ".

The IIGS could run all of Apple's earlier Apple II operating systems: Apple DOS, ProDOS 8, and Apple Pascal.