A/UX was released for the Mac II in 1988, then in 1993 Apple changed course with a series of servers, before Mac OS X Server in 1999 and its first Xserves in 2002.
Xserve
An extended tutorial-review of Mountain Lion Server, OS X Server 2.2, written in 2012-13, with copious screenshots.
From running multitasking on a single CPU, MultiFinder and cooperative multitasking, massively parallel systems using Transputers, to building concurrency into the Swift language.
Apple says that macOS Server is changing, then warns that almost all its services will be removed. After 19 years, is this the end?
Next year might not be as bad as it is currently. Tim Cook doesn’t reveal any details, but lays down some corporate policy.
Should we perhaps switch to a Linux or Windows server, or does OS X Server still cut the mustard?
Apple’s growing success in enterprise is not just the result of good partners. And it has some curious side-effects.
If you ever used a PowerBook G4 on naked flesh, you will already have experienced the thermal limit to processor speed.
The Eclectic Light Company 