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Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

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Steve Jobs introduces Mac OS X, demonstrating the new Aqua user interface, Quartz graphics engine, and the Cocoa and Carbon APIs.

By request, here is when Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X for the first time ever. I edited the video myself to show the very best moments of the presentation & split it up into 3 parts on account of youtube's bogus time limit.

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What people say. Pointed to as a landmark presentation in computing history that introduced the modern macOS architecture and user interface.

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