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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Windows vs Unix/Linux Post 15161 by Neo on Monday 11th of February 2002 01:18:13 PM
Old 02-11-2002
Computer operating systems communicate with, and manage, registers in the underlying silicon hardware. Therefore, with currrent state-of-the-art technology, only one operating system may communiate with the underlying hardware (at a time).

This means that you can run either one OS or another, not both. The exception is with emulation applications, but in this application, you are not really running two operating systems, you are running one and emulating the other on top of one.

There are no robust emulations of Windows 2000 on any UNIX variant and there are no robust emulations of UNIX on W2K.


Apple has successfully emulated the Mac OS 9 OS on top of UNIX (Darwin, in MAC OS X). If you want the best of both worlds operating at the same time, then MAC OS X is a good (and more expensive!) choice.

 

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sw_vers

SW_VERS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						SW_VERS(1)

NAME

     sw_vers -- print Mac OS X operating system version information

SYNOPSIS

     sw_vers
     sw_vers -productName
     sw_vers -productVersion
     sw_vers -buildVersion

DESCRIPTION

     sw_vers prints version information about the Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server operating system running on the local machine.

     When executed with no options sw_vers prints a short list of version properties:

	   % sw_vers
	   ProductName:    Mac OS X
	   ProductVersion: 10.3
	   BuildVersion:   7A100

     The ProductName property provides the name of the operating system release (typically either "Mac OS X" or "Mac OS X Server").  The
     ProductVersion property defines the version of the operating system release (for example, "10.2.4" or "10.3").  The BuildVersion property
     provides the specific revision of the operating system as generated by the Mac OS X build system.

OPTIONS

     The output of sw_vers can be refined by the following options.

     -productName     Print just the value of the ProductName property.

     -productVersion  Print just the value of the ProductVersion property.

     -buildVersion    Print just the value of the BuildVersion property.

EXAMPLES

     % sw_vers -productName
     Mac OS X

     % sw_vers -productVersion
     10.3

     % sw_vers -buildVersion
     7A100

FILES

     /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
     /System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist

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