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Re:If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you ... by briandear on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:31AM (#4136649)
Ok Mac OS X Lion is not System 9. And no, Lion isn't backwards compatible to System 9 and there hasn't been hell to pay.
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Re:If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you ... by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @10:27AM (#4137109)
The difference is that tens of thousands of business users used System 9. The Microsoft platform probably had hundreds of millions.
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Re:If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you ... by danudey on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @06:07PM (#4139368)
The actual name of the OS changed to 'MacOS' as of MacOS 8.x. The 'System X' designation ended with System 7.5, sadly.
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