Penguin
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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.

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 MacFanatics.

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, ls, cd, tail, sed, perl, etc - it's like a $HOME away from $HOME.

The AppleMacintosh has run on a variety of processors 680x0, PPC and Intel


Codenames of various Macintosh OperatingSystems (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 10.0, .1, .2, .3 .4, .5, .6 and .7 respectively)

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