Chromebook deployment...

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Nov 1 11:00:20 EST 2015


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 <colinholgate at 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 <richmondmathewson at 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 <richmondmathewson at 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>
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