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That'll be a pain. My favoured version of Solitaire is a PPC app, and I think I've got a few others around somewhere 
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The "X" in OS X stands for "Unix based", it's a coincidence that it's Roman for the major version number. No, it's not a coincidence. It's certainly a happy coincidence that it also has an association with UNIX (and with NeXTSTEP) but, as Apple quite clearly state, it's "ten" not "ex". The coincidence is in the opposite direction to your assertion
I don't believe that page that I linked to is a marketing pronouncement. It's a document on their support site.
It's all very well sticking to your guns when all the evidence is against you, but sometimes it can give the impression that you are merely stubbornly unwilling to accept an error.
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It's all very well sticking to your guns when all the evidence is against you "All the evidence"... one link 
Every diagnostic I can find on this 'ere lump of silicon says I'm running an operating system called "(Mac) OS X", version 10.6.6.
Not OS X.6.6, or OS 10.6.6, but OS X 10.6.6.
You believe who you like, I'll believe the programmers.
Edited by billford (Sun 27-Feb-11 14:27:26)
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Apple has a pretty brutal end of life policy, and always has (java is also no longer bundled and, like Rosetta, was marked deprecated in the first dev preview). Perhaps they are finally confident that Adobe is getting on board with Cocoa.
Front Row seems to have been scrapped too.
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Never used Front Row so not bothered either way, but I won't be too upset to see the back of Java.
"Deprecated" rather implies it can still be used if you really insist... and Rosetta wasn't included by default in Snow Leopard, only as an option.
Any idea if similar considerations apply to Lion?
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Apple was clear that "deprecated" means it may be removed from later version.
(Specifically it was Apple's own java engine that was deprecated - a good decision, since java on Mac was always trailing others - and java can still be got from Oracle.)
Deprecated means "don't rely on it continuing to function as expected". Same as with HTML tags - can still be used, but do not rely on this continuing.
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More or less what I thought, but you've somewhat clarified what can only ever be a slightly uncertain area... thanks for that.
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"All the evidence"... one link Would you like to present some other evidence? That's all the evidence there is.
You are indeed running (Mac) OS X, version 10.6.6 - so you can believe the programmers (as do I). Now where does it say that "X" refers to UNIX?
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Linux confuses things by having an X but by not being Unix.
X in Unix land surely refers to the X Windows server anyway?
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Well the bulk of the change was in 2000....
Yes, but that was a tidied up NT4.0.
I'm ignoring the whole business OS thing in this discussion.
XP was a huge change, it killed off all manner of things, 16-bit threads etc. It required new drivers. In business land people buy hardware they know works, they replace it if it doesn't any more.
At home people wanted everything they had working in Win 98/ME to work in XP.
Edited by deleted (Sun 27-Feb-11 16:51:57)
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