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-A computer made by AppleCorporation and well known for its ease of use. They say this is a computer everyone is passionate about -
either haters or lovers.
+A computer made by AppleCorporation and well known for its ease of use. They say this is a computer everyone is passionate about – they're
either haters or lovers.
-Haters dislike it for its [Proprietary] Hardware and Software. The previous line of its operating system, [MacOS] up to version 9, led to a backronym
for __MACINTOSH__ being coined as ''Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs''. One of its variations is named the ''Emac'' -
that's just wrong. Not least among the reasons that it annoys haters is the demeanour of [
MacFanatic]
s.
+Haters dislike it for its [Proprietary] [
Hardware]
and [
Software]
. The previous line of its operating system, [MacOS] up to version 9, led to a [Backronym]
for __MACINTOSH__ being coined as ''Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs''. One of its variations is named the ''Emac'' –
that's just wrong. Not least among the reasons that it annoys haters is the demeanour of MacFanatic~
s.
-A lot of old issues were largely improved recently by
[Apple] discarding
the old [MacOS] code base and using a
[BSD
] derivative called [Darwin] as the basis
for [MacOSX]. So while you may be going spare with a one button mouse you can open a terminal and use the shell just like under [Unix]. All your old favourite commands are there
, [cat|cat(1)
], [ls|ls(1)]
, cd
, [tail|tail(1)]
, [sed|sed(1)
], [perl|perl(1)], etc - it's like a __$HOME__ away from __$HOME__
.
+[Apple] unsuccessfully tried to replace
the old [MacOS] several times; first
[Copland
], which was supposed to substitute
for version 8
, then
[Gershwin
], which was supposed to substitute for version 9. Finally
, after SteveJobs' return
, they succeeded with Rhapsody
, which became
[MacOSX
]. A lot of old issues were largely improved by this
.
-The AppleMacintosh has run on
a variety
of processors
[680x0
], [PPC
] and
[Intel
]
+Unlike earlier attempts, [MacOSX] was not
a from-scratch effort. It is an amalgamate
of several pre-existing technologies, one of them being a mostly-
[FreeBSD
] UserSpace. So while you may be going spare with a one button mouse you can open a terminal and use the shell just like under [Unix]. All your old favourite commands are there
, [cat|cat(1)
],
[ls|ls(1)
], <tt>cd</tt>, [tail|tail(1)], [sed|sed(1)], [perl|perl(1)], etc – it's like a <tt>$HOME</tt> away from <tt>$HOME</tt>.
-----
-Codenames
of various Macintosh [OperatingSystem]s (some of these were never actually released)
:
-*
[MacOS
] (versions 7-9)
-*
[Copland
] (was supposed to be MacOS 8)
-*
[Gershwin
] (was supposed to be MacOS 9)
-* Rhapsody (codename for [MacOSX] Server during development)
-* Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion (MacOSX 10., .1, .2, .3 .4, .5, .6 and
.7 respectively)
+The AppleMacintosh has run on a variety
of processors
: originally
[680x0
], later
[PPC
], now
[Intel
].
----
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