[TUHS] Tahoe

Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Dec 10 01:16:02 AEST 2025


Hello folks,

Illness and work, both at the same time, prevented me from posting this a couple of months ago.

I noted, when Apple released macOS 26 three months ago that it was called macOS Tahoe and I remembered that there was a processor specific release of 4.3 BSD back in 1988 that was officially referred to as "4.3BSD tahoe".

I mention this only because, statistically, the chances of two Unix releases being given the same name must be slim, granted they were for different reasons, one referring to the platform it was to run on and the other because I guess Apple thought it was a nice name? 

I guess it could also be argued they didn't have the same name as one was "tahoe" and the other is "Tahoe" or that they did but that one being capitalized and one not is how the statistics were defeated.

Have a safe rest of your week, everyone!

Cameron




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