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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Friday, February 27, 2004 4:01:19 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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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 variant of [FreeBSD] 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__.
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+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 (MacOSX 10.0, .1, .2, and .3 respectively)
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Compare WinTel.
