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| From | Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.sys.mac.apps |
| Subject | Re: Newsreaders |
| Date | 2013-10-30 09:29 +1300 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <301020130929546417%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink) |
| References | <slrnl6tlnt.b0i.mr@irc.sandman.net> <291020131329139978%YourName@YourISP.com> <l4opl8$ltb$5@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
In article <l4opl8$ltb$5@dont-email.me>, Erilar
<drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > In article <slrnl6tlnt.b0i.mr@irc.sandman.net>, Sandman
> > <mr@sandman.net> wrote:
> >> In article <2013102808574249220-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck
> >> <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is Mavericks a new OS?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes. It's OS X 10.9
> >>>>
> >>>>> Did they run out of cats?
> >>>>
> >>>> Apparently so, according to what they said at the WWDC in June.
> >>>
> >>> I guess they missed "Civet". ;-)
> >>
> >> And Lynx or Ocelot :)
> >
> > One of the big(ish) rumours at the beginning of the year was that Mac
> > OS X 10.9 would be called Lynx. :-)
> >
> > Apple simply ran out of big cat names. Coming down from Lion (or
> > Mountain Lion) to Lynx might have been considered to be sending the
> > wrong "message" about it being less powerful or some such marketing /
> > pshco-babble nonsense.
> >
> > They should just get rid of the silly names completely. It's much
> > easier to know that "Mac OS X 10.9" is newer than "Mac OS X 10.6",
> > rather than trying to figure out where in the timeline the different
> > silly codenames fit.
>
> That would be much more logical. It took me a while to figure out why
> people were talking about stray cattle here.
At least we can be thankful that Apple is (so far) fairly consistent.
Unlike Windows where they can't decide whether to use numbers (3.1, 8),
years (95, 2000), or names (XP, Vista). :-)
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Re: Newsreaders M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-10-27 20:09 -0400
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Re: Newsreaders Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-10-28 00:16 +0000
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Re: Newsreaders Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-28 20:44 +0000
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Re: Newsreaders Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-10-31 05:25 +0000
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Re: Newsreaders Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-29 18:25 +1300
Re: Newsreaders nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-29 01:33 -0400
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Re: Newsreaders Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-29 19:25 +1300
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Re: Newsreaders Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-30 14:39 +0000
Re: Newsreaders Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-31 09:31 +1300
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Re: Newsreaders Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-30 14:39 +0000
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Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-30 23:22 +0000
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