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System 5.1: Actuality?
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:05 pm
by fanman93
I recently downloaded a disk image that claims to be the System 5.1 Tools disk. Well, there are two of them, actually, but that's not the interesting thing. When I go to "About this Mac", it show that the system is, in fact, 4.3 and that the finder is 6.0. What should I make of this?
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:31 am
by Ronald P. Regensburg
I do not know about this specific system version, but different versions for "System" and "Finder" were not unusual in early system versions.
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:45 am
by adespoton
Those versions sound just about right to me
It wasn't until somewhere in the System 6 upgrade path that Apple attempted to unify the version numbers.
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:02 pm
by theos911
That 5.1 is System Software version 5.1 . It came with system 4.3 and finder 6.0 . See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... Software_5 for more details.