dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

[Jacob Carlborg]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> They call it "Mac OS", then they add a version like this: "Mac OS 9". 
>> Then when the tenth versions came it happened to be built on a nix 
>> base/core (known as darwin) and they also added the X (probably to 
>> reflect the new nix base, "X" is also ten using roman numerals) making 
>> it: "Mac OS X". They still call it "mac os ten" (though some people, 
>> including me, like to call it "mac os x" and pronounce the "x" as in 
>> the letter "x"). After the "x" they add a name to reflect the version 
>> i.e. "Leopard" for version 10.5. Sometimes they refer to the os 
>> version with the name and sometimes with the version number.
> 
> Apple calls it "Mac OS X version 10.5".
> 
> There is little consistency in how Apple names their OSs, so there is no 
> way to come up with a version identifier for it that is completely 
> consistent.
> 

About the "darwin" vs "OSX". There are other operating systems than Mac 
OS X that could use "darwin" as the version identifier if someone made a 
D compiler available. iPhone OS (this is just Mac OS X on the iphone and 
ipod thouch but it's called iPhone OS) and GNU/Darwin for example.