Chromebook deployment...

[Kaveh Bazargan]

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 <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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