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From: "Tom Rymes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Duo/2400 List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: [Duo2400] Re: OS 7.6 no longer needed
> > I think it may help to remember that there's a difference between what
you may find in Apples's Tech Info Library, and events in the real world....
> >
> > In 1997, every new Mac and clone shipped with System 7.6 or 7.6.1, and
all System CD's of that era are marked as "System 7.x" instead of "Mac OS" -
at least every one that I've ever seen with my own eyeballs.
> >
> > Sounds to me as if someone at Apple has decided to do a little
retroactive record-keeping....
>
>
> "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
> controls the past." -- Orwell
>
> I still remember the change to Mac Os as beginning with 7.6. I even think
> that it manifests itself in the "About this Computer" Box. (Who here
> thinks that Apple should change that back to "About this Macintosh"? I do!
>
>
> Tom
>
I just installed 7.5.3 and it calls it pops up the "MacOS" splash screen as
it boots. 7.5.1 didn't, so it was somewhere between there. It still calls it
"System Software 7.5.3" in the About this Macintosh tho (still says
Macintosh and not Computer).
Scott Holder
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