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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by saagarjha on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:27PM (#21459153)
> I said MacOS variants - iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

Oh, come on. That's profoundly misleading and you know it.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:09PM (#21459405)
What does “variant” mean? It’s not some obscure word that no one understands. Would it have been more clear if I said Darwin variants? Who the heck knows what Darwin is besides a few nerds?
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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by saagarjha on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:10PM (#21459417)
> Would it have been more clear if I said Darwin variants?

Yes.

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Re:The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP by scarface74 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:25PM (#21459693)
How so? iOS evolved from MacOS not Darwin. Darwin is at best a grandparent of iOS.
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