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Re: Release note inaccuracies?



On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> If you want to pick this do death...

<...snip...>

> "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."

Our marketing people like to remind us engineers on occasion that "MacOS"
is really spelled "Mac OS."

Cheers,

davez

--
Dave Zarzycki
Darwin & Mac OS X
Apple Computer, Inc.


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 >Re: Release note inaccuracies? (From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>)



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