Colin, we might have run into each other in the early Apple days. I did many demos for dealers for Adobe Illustrator (v1), Mathematica (on Mac and Next), Textures (tex on Mac) and even HyperCard.
On 1 November 2015 at 14:20, Colin Holgate <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > >> [email protected] > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Kaveh Bazargan Director River Valley Technologies @kaveh1000 +44 7771 824 111 www.rivervalleytechnologies.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
