I think you may be right it's a regional thing. I checked my archives again and I have no version 4. It goes from 3 to 5. I'm looking at the official Apple developer CD that contains all historical operating systems.
On November 1, 2015 8:20:18 AM CST, Colin Holgate <colinholg...@gmail.com> wrote: >I was hired by Apple in October 1987 because they lacked Apple II >knowledge in tech support, but I would still have to answer calls not >knowing what the topic was going to be. One conversation with an Apple >dealer went like this: > >dealer: “what’s the current version of Finder?” >me to dealer: “hold on” >me to colleagues: “what’s the current version of Finder?” >colleagues: “5.5” >me to dealer: “5.5” >dealer: “thanks” hang up >me to colleagues: “What’s Finder?” > >Anyway, my point was that even if in some places 4.2/6.0 was promoted >as System Update 5.0, there never was a System 5.0. The System went >straight from 4.3 to 6.0. > > >> On Oct 31, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >> 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 main thing is that there wasn’t a System 5.0, even if in some >places 4.2 and 4.3 were labeled as System Software Release 5.x. >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> >wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> One really doesn't have to look far to check that one: >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS#System_Software_5 ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mac_OS#System_Software_5> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
