Apple calls Tiger, the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system, "the biggest operating-system release in Macintosh history". Like many Macworld readers I've visited Apple's big-cat ga me park on each release of Mac OS X, but have also followed the company's beleaguered efforts to create its next-generation OS for years beforehand. So as we watch Tiger installation progress bars slowly wipe Panther from history and introduce such delights as Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator, here's my top-ten OS Xs. Microsoft's Windows operating system became a raging success after version 3.1, and its planned upgrade (code-named Chicago) was slated for a 1993 release. While it slipped and eventually became Windows 95, Apple knew it had to respond by radically updating its ageing Mac OS. Several projects to create the first total rewrite of the OS since 1984 quickly bit the dust. Star Trek (don't you just love computer programmers?) was a bold effort to port the Mac OS to run on Intel processors, but was dumped in favour of a move to PowerPC chips. Raptor, which would run on any architecture, was also quickly extinct. Apple and IBM's Pink project for an object-oriented OS had a longer, lingering death after it was spun out into a company called Taligent.
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机译：苹果将其Mac OS X操作系统的最新版本Tiger称为“ Macintosh历史上最大的操作系统版本”。像许多Macworld读者一样，我已经在每个Mac OS X版本中访问了苹果的大型游戏机，但也跟随苹果公司多年的艰辛努力来创建其下一代OS。因此，当我们观看Tiger安装进度条时，它会慢慢抹去历史上的Panther并引入诸如Spotlight，Dashboard和Automator之类的乐趣，这是我的十大OSX。微软的Windows操作系统在3.1版之后取得了巨大的成功，其计划的升级（代号Chicago）计划于1993年发行。尽管它下滑并最终成为Windows 95，但苹果知道它必须通过彻底更新其老化的Mac OS来做出回应。自1984年以来，有几个项目创建了OS的首次完全重写。 《星际迷航》（难道您不只是喜欢计算机程序员吗？）是为了将Mac OS移植到Intel处理器上而进行的一项大胆尝试，但由于转向PowerPC芯片而被放弃。可以在任何架构上运行的Raptor也很快灭绝了。苹果和IBM的面向对象操作系统的Pink项目在被拆分成一家名为Taligent的公司后，死了更长的时间，挥之不去。
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