On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 01:11  PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

>
>> I think we have three options so far:-
>> a) ignore this and leave it as is
>> b) change Mac & win code to return 'Mac OS 8.60' and 'windows 95' -
>> obeying the swiki page
>> c) change Acorn to return '4.15' instead of 'RiscOS 4.15' and change
>> the swiki page.
>>
>> Votes? Pronouncements ex cathedra?
>
> Clearly my preferred choice is:
>
> d) Change the swiki page to _document_ the actual behavior and leave
> everything as is
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas

I'll point out on the mac that osversion returns the version number,  
which started at 1.0.0 in 1984, or
was that 1.0.0g Based on the version number  you can expect to find  
different behavior in the
OS, like is this os-x, or pre os-x since os-x is really mac os 10.0.0
I'll pick d)

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