dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Apr 15 10:35:18 PDT 2009


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.



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