Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > On 10/30/2015 03:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Apple's desktop OS has always been distinguished from Microsoft's >> > > That's true. > There's a wastebasket instead of a recycle bin. > /ducking But that's MS aping Apple. The win95 interf

Re: glx2

2015-10-31 Thread Mark Talluto
> On Oct 29, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> On 10/26/2015 09:11 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: >> I used to use this script editor full time back in the day. It is really >> nice to see that you are keeping it going Mark. Thought I might give it a >> try again and see how it goes. >> >>

Re: glx2

2015-10-31 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/31/2015 08:29 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Oct 29, 2015, at 9:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 10/26/2015 09:11 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: I used to use this script editor full time back in the day. It is really nice to see that you are keeping it going Mark. Thought I might give it a try aga

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Colin Holgate
Although some pages mention a system 5, there wasn’t one. Here’s a list of system releases and dates that seems correct: http://www.computerhope.com/history/macos.htm Before System 6 came out the System and Finder had different version numbers, w

Re: glx2

2015-10-31 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/31/2015 08:29 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: Ok. I will give it a try in 7.1.1 and 8. All right. Beta 2 is up on the website now. It's stable for me (except for the engine bug on linux), it (finally) includes the properties in clairvoyance completion, so that the typeahead function will fill

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Roger Eller
While multifinder was pausing an application to bring another application to the foreground, the Amiga computer was already doing true multi-tasking. It still makes me sad that the management of Commodore had no idea of what they were selling, and therefore could not market it properly. Even in v

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/31/2015 11:37 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Although some pages mention a system 5, there wasn’t one. Here’s a list of system releases and dates that seems correct: http://www.computerhope.com/history/macos.htm I'm not sure that listing is co

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Colin Holgate
Pretty sure the system version jumped from 4.3 to 6.0, though it’s possible there may have been a US only system between the two that the rest of the world received. > On Oct 31, 2015, at 3:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I'm not sure that listing is correct. I have a copy of every Mac opera

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Richmond
On 31/10/15 21:55, Colin Holgate wrote: Pretty sure the system version jumped from 4.3 to 6.0, though it’s possible there may have been a US only system between the two that the rest of the world received. One really doesn't have to look far to check that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Colin Holgate
Wikipedia is one of the places that seemed wrong. It could just be that it was packaged that way in the US, elsewhere the system release didn’t really have a number as such, because System and Finder were always different, until 6.0 was released. The main thing is that there wasn’t a System 5.0

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Richmond
On 31/10/15 22:05, Colin Holgate wrote: Wikipedia is one of the places that seemed wrong. It could just be that it was packaged that way in the US, elsewhere the system release didn’t really have a number as such, because System and Finder were always different, until 6.0 was released. The ma

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Richmond
On 31/10/15 22:05, Colin Holgate wrote: Wikipedia is one of the places that seemed wrong. It could just be that it was packaged that way in the US, elsewhere the system release didn’t really have a number as such, because System and Finder were always different, until 6.0 was released. The ma

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-10-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
I didn't mean to imply that Apple's (future, potential) effort would ape Microsoft's work. I just listed MS's effort because it's a concrete example of the issues I see. The rest of your post seems to be implying that your version of a hybrid OS would largely resemble iOS, but with some extensions