# Centred Apple

The Mac OS X 10.0 Public Beta from September 2000 didn’t have an Apple menu: the
Apple icon was centred in the menu bar when there was available room and the
system commands were with in the app menu’s commands.

![Clock running in the Dock in the Public Beta.](/bits/centred-apple/01.png)

The Clock was an app displaying the time in the Dock instead of the menu
bar—likely a relic of its Unix ancestor NeXTSTEP. The Desktop also had its own
app menu.

![The Desktop is shown as an app in Mac OS X 10.0 Public Beta. The system and app menus were one.](/bits/centred-apple/00.png)

![Desktop of NeXTSTEP 3.0 with the clock in on the side and some applications opened.](/bits/centred-apple/02.png)

You can try Mac OS X 10.0 and NeXTSTEP 3.0 yourself on
[Infinite Mac](https://infinitemac.org).