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Re: Release note inaccuracies?

On Friday, January 19, 2001, at 11:57 PM, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, 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.
>
[snip]
> Ideally, the paragraph would read something like:
>
> "Darwin refers to Apple's open source operating system, which is also the
> core of MacOS X. Its closest 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+ filesystems, it
> does not utilize dual-forked files or Macintosh type and creator
> attributes."

How about "Darwin is Apple's ..."? Also, to pick a few nits, "MacOS" should be "Mac OS".

Cheers,

Justin

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