Mac OS X (
IPA: ) is a line of graphical
operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by
Apple Inc., the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping
Macintosh computers. Mac OS X is the successor to the original
Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system (OS) since 1984. Unlike its predecessors, Mac OS X is a
Unix OS built on technology that had been developed at
NeXT through the second half of the 1980s until Apple purchased the company in early 1997.
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