Happy 5th Birthday to Mac OS X!

Fellow Macolytes,

Today, March 24, 2006, is an annivesary for our platform of choice. For it was five years ago today that the operating system that replaced the venerable OS 9 on the Mac debuted, it was called Mac OS X, and it was good.

Finally bringing the stability of the UNIX world to its underpinnings, protected memory areas for applications, and too many more to list, it revolutionized Macs forever, and paved the way for other important changes in software and hardware design and implementation.

John Siracusa of arstechnica.com, who by his own admission has arguably written the most words on the subject of OS X, gives us a interesting read on the auspicious occasion.

Five Years of Mac OS X