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Re: Release note inaccuracies?

On Friday, January 19, 2001, at 08:54 PM, strobe anarkhos wrote:

> >"Darwin - refers to Apple's OpenSource Operating System that is the
> >core of MacOS X. Its most similar counterpart is FreeBSD Unix. It
> >does not include Aqua (the new MacOS X GUI), Cocoa, or Carbon. In
> >addition, while it does support running on top of HFS+ Drives, it
> >does not know about dual-forked files or Macintosh Type and Creator
> >attributes."
>
> Change 'know about' to 'utilize'. I also think open source is two
> words and operating system need not be capitalized. I'm sure somebody
> here will correct me, but I think UNIX is an acronym for Unified
> Network of Indexed eXchange thus capitalized.

I'm not sure where you got this, but UNIX is not an acronym; and it is a trademark (last I heard, owned by SCO).

Regards,

Justin

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