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In article <728@rtbrain.woodside.ca.us> glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)  
writes:
> Bradley Head writes
> > Larry Cordner writes
> > >     "Another Unix-related contender is the NeXTstep 486, from NeXT.   
Built
> > >     on the Macintosh [sic] operating system kernel, the object-oriented
> >              ^^^^^^^^^
> > 	Unbelievable. PC Mag has their head so far up Gate's ass they can't  
> > even get a quote right.
> 
> It occurred to me, after you mentioned that they didn't get the quote
> right, that they probably said "Mach" and the writer didn't know anything
> about it, so he/she heard "Mac" instead.  Wrong, of course, but a little
> bit more understandable.  If you read the sentence above with "Mac"
> instead of "Macintosh", then substitute "Mach", it sort of makes sense
> how it could get so screwed up.
> 
Worse yet, the writer might have had it right, but a copy editor then might  
have seen "Mach operating system kernel", assumed that "Mach" was a typo for  
"Mac", and made the 'correction' to "Macintosh". Don't laugh; I've had copy  
editors do worse to me (usually caught in the galleys, thank goodness). If that  
is the case, then there is one furious author out there somewhere....
..bruce..

Bruce F. Webster
Director, BRI
bwebster@pages.com
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