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Re: Release note inaccuracies?

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, John Clark wrote:

> Dave Zarzycki wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> >
> > > "Darwin refers to Apple's open source operating system, which is also the
> > > core of MacOS X. Its closest counterpart is FreeBSD Unix. It
> >
> > Our marketing people like to remind us engineers on occasion that "MacOS"
> > is really spelled "Mac OS."
>
> Perhaps even more picky, in the case of Mac OS 9, must be refered to by "Mac OS 9'
> rather than simply 'OS 9"... which is an OS product of Micoware... not Microsoft...
> Then again the weasel worders would probably say that product is OS9... not OS 9...
> but anyway...
>
> And there's probably an OS 10 out there as well... perhaps in IBM land...
>
> and of course I like the pronunciation of 'OSeX'... but I digress even further...

Sounds pornographic to me....


David

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