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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
.
+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
.
-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."
+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
.
-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
+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__.
Compare WinTel.
