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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:54:23 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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A computer made by AppleCorporation and well known for its ease of use. It features: [Proprietary] [Hardware] and [Software], a computer named the ''Emac'' (that's just wrong) and a large number of [MacFanatic]s. It runs [MacOS] as its operating system.
There's a nice [backronym|http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/backronym.html] for MACINTOSH: "Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs."
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+This has been largely improved recently by Apple using a varient of [FreeBSD] called [Darwin] to base their MacOS X operations system. 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, ls, cd, tail, sed, perl, etc, it's like a $HOME away from $HOME
Compare WinTel.
