From eWeek:
[Apple’s 2003 OS] Panther will mark the third significant upgrade to Mac OS X since its debut—and the fourth big cat from Apple. The initial Mac OS X release bore the internal code name Cheetah, and Mac OS X 10.1, which shipped in September 2001, was referred to internally as Puma although neither moniker was ever publicized. (Mac OS X 10.2 Server was code-named Tigger, sources said, another sobriquet that never saw the light of day.)
Nigel Stanger:
Historical snippet: The system error manager in the classic Mac OS was known informally as the “DS” manager, which depending on your point of view stood for either “dire straits” or “deep s**t.”
Apple has Jaguar running on Intel hardware. When will you see it offered? Don’t hold your breath.
Since it’s been a while since I’ve added anything, a blog-style entry for the day:
> “We saw the MacQuarium and said, ‘Let’s
put a bong inside one instead,'” Agapornis said. “We were probably stoned.”
David Coursey, head honcho at AnchorDesk, is switching to the Mac for a month to report on what a Wintel user would see if they follow the path that Apple is pushing for.
What makes this interesting is that AnchorDesk is frequently seen as being anti-Mac, publishing articles that contain minor mistakes about the platform, and generally falling for the Windows media hype hook, line, and sinker. But that’s the opinion of Mac fanatics, and we’re generally discounted by the outside world.
It seems that Coursey is going to be using a G3 processor Mac that’s just lying around, which tilts the game in Wintel’s favor slightly. All new Mac desktops run at least a G4 processor, the next generation up; only the iBooks still ship with G3s. Mac OS X likes a lot of RAM and eats a lot of processor power, and most of the complaints about OS X on the Mac lists come from people running older hardware.
Still, an interesting development.
I was taken aback this morning by some standard legal boilerplate published on an Apple news site about a contest that Apple is running:
ELIGIBILITY: All entrants must be at least 18 years old and must be legal residents of the United States, including the District of Columbia. [emphasis added]
Typically, these sorts of legal clauses are only added when there’s been some sort of legal protest or confusion in the past, which implies that someone, somewhere, managed to think that people living in D.C. aren’t even legal residents of the United States, let alone citizens. That’s gotta take the cake.