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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.
[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.
-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)], cd, [tail|tail(1)], [sed|sed(1)], [perl|perl(1)], etc -
it's like a __
$HOME__
away from __
$HOME__
.
+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>
.
The AppleMacintosh has run on a variety of processors: originally [680x0], later [PPC], now [Intel].
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