MacIntosh : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary
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Apple produces a competing line of computers to the PCs. The older Apples are based around the Motorola 68000 series of CPUs. The newer ones are based around the IBM PowerPC RISC CPU. and the newest around the Intel CPUs. Windows borrowed many ideas from the Mac. The Mac’s main problem is fewer applications.

Unfortunately, the Mac does not support version 1.6 of Java, just 1.5. Java hides many of the peculiarities of the Mac from you. For example to account of the different ways to request a menu popup, MouseEvent.isPopoupTrigger() will occur when somebody right clicks on a PC mouse or presses the single Mac mouse button with the control key down, Macs have no set environment. Java uses the System Properties which don’t rely on it. You deal with Mac’s peculiar habit of using \r instead of \n or \r\n for separating lines in text files you have:

static String fileSeparatorChar = File.separatorChar;
static String lineSeparator = System.getProperty ( "line.separator" );
static String nameSeparator = File.separator; /* always 1 long */
static String nameSeparatorChar = File.separatorChar;
static char pathSeparatorChar = File.pathSeparatorChar;

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