Hi, Am 28.03.2010 um 03:13 schrieb Larry Gusaas:
> On 2010/03/26 3:10 PM Marcus Lange wrote: >> Christian Lohmaier wrote: >>> Apparently no typo? MacOS instead of MacOSX? >>> May I ask why the X was dropped? >> >> the X is an indicator for the vesion of the OS. A least I have seen and >> understood this from here "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS";. It's not >> set because it's also not existing for the other platforms. > > The X indicates the Unix based OS introduced in 2001 to differentiate it from > the Classic Mac OS. The current version is Mac OS X Version 10.6.2. Leaving > out the X could lead to some confusion. I can't refrain from a comment ;-) Well, the classic MacOS's last major version was 9, and 'X' happens to be the Roman literal for 10. Could be a pun :-) But Apple themselves present current MacOS spoken as "MacOS Ten", so I guess that's how they like it more. And I actually don't think we'll see a MacOS X with version number 11.*. But who knows! >>> Christian (who already sees hard times, convincing Mac Users that >>> Intel is now x86) >> >> Hm, really? ;-) > > Apple refers to either Intel or PowerPC processors for OS X Macs. Many Mac > users would not know what x86 means. Since binaries for x86/x86_64 and PPC are usually refered to as universal binaries, I'd use just that as architecture -if- the binaries are indeed universal binaries. Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
