Comment Re:Canadian Climate (Score 1) 444
They could also be referring to Michael Smith, who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his work on the polymerase chain reaction. PCR made modern genomics possible.
They could also be referring to Michael Smith, who won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his work on the polymerase chain reaction. PCR made modern genomics possible.
I believe that the oldest one on my computer right now was created December 16, 1989.
I think that means that it's been copied through at least eight computers.
It's a text file called CLASSICS.TXT, which is a large compilation of what can only be described as BBS etiquette.
Also, an interesting treatise from an anonymous author about "software proliferation" (since he refused to use the word "piracy".)
It's not like the 10 was ever a version number anyway, in that it's a derivative of Next, not ("classic") Mac OS, which they had to ditch. The "X" has always been a marketing thing.
Calling it "X" has always been a marketing thing, it's true, but Apple have been very adamant that it be pronounced "ten" and not "ecks". So I don't know if it has that much to do with it being a NeXT derivative. After all, the OS before OS X was OS 9.
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