Mac OS first appeared with the first Mac in 1984. It was known as System 1. By version 5 the name was changed to System Software 5 (1987) and became Mac OS with the release of version 7.6. Mac OS 9 (1999) was the last version of what is now known as the Classic Mac OS.
Mac OS X was released on March 24th, 2001 and was included in Apple computers since 2002 as default operating system. But Mac OS X was based on UNIX type operating system developed by NeXT in the second half of 1980s.
While Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released in 1999.
The full list of each version release dates could be found on Wikipedia.
Mac OS is the first operating system developed in the year 1955
Mac OS X (Cheetah) was introduced on 4 March 2001 having been developed since 1997.
After Mac OS. Mac OS was based on the earlier Xerox Alto system.
The Mac OS was designed by Apple as the operating system for their Macintosh range of computers. The first Mac OS, originally known as System Software, was introduced with the first Macintosh in 1984. Over the years the original Mac OS was developed, improved and expanded until Mac OS 9 in 2001. For version 10 Apple reworked the Mac OS around a UNIX core and this is known as Mac OS X.
Mac OS X is one of the major releases of operating systems from Apple Inc. It features a low level Mach_kernel, underlying Unix OS, a 3D graphical user interface. Mac OS X can only be installed on computers made by Apple Inc. Recent versions of Mac OS X include: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Starting in Mac OS 10.5 an automatic backup utility called Time Machine is available. The current version is Mac OS X 10.10 and an early release version of Mac OS X 10.11 is available to install.
Mac OS 8.1 was released on January 19, 1998.
The Mac OS was developed after the need for a more secure OS was realized. The Mac OS used elements of other operating systems such as BSD and UNIX to create an easy to use operating system that was inherently more secure than the operating systems that were in use at that time, such as DOS.
I have a Mac OS X but I know Mac OS is a computer made by the brand/company, Apple.
The second name of Mac OS X v10.4.5 is Mac OS X v10.4 Intel.Mac OS X 10.4 was known as Mac OS X Tiger.
You cannot without erasing your hard drive and installing Mac OS 9 from scratch. Even then Mac OS 9 may not run on modern Mac hardware because Mac OS 9 needs the ROM chip to boot. Modern Mac OS X hardware uses EFI to boot the system instead of a ROM chip to boot. Mac OS X v10.0 - Mac OS X v10.4 support Mac OS 9 applications and can run them, you just need to install the Mac OS 9 compatibility program which can be found on the Mac OS X Install CD.
The oldest mac OS is System 1
Mac OS Leopard