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To: Common Tator
> The current Mac operating system is a version of Berkley Linux. It uses the standard Linux code to access the Internet.

Geez, dude. "Berkley Linux"? If you're gonna spew uncertainties and so forth, ya gotta be more careful. Mac OS-X is a BSD UNIX variant, which pre-dates Linux by decades. BSD is an outstandingly robust operating system. Linux isn't too shabby either, these days.

Windows is something else entirely.

> It was easy to learn how Linux accesses the 'net. I just down loaded the open source Berkley Code and read it.

Two completely different code bases. BSD was prominent in the early 80's, on VAXes and such; Linux didn't get written until the 90's, on i386 PCs.

I can't imagine how you confused those two. Seriously, you completely undermined whatever else you said with that.

33 posted on 01/07/2007 8:13:05 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
Mac OS-X is a BSD UNIX variant, which pre-dates Linux by decades.

I dont know if I would call 13 years 'Decades' ;)

72 posted on 01/08/2007 7:48:11 AM PST by N3WBI3 ("Help me out here guys: What do you do with someone who wont put up or shut up?" - N3WBI3)
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