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> Hi, All,
> The client's docs refer to Windows and Macintosh as platforms. In
> addition to straightening out their belief that Windows is a
> computer, what's your understanding regarding usage of these terms?
>
> My experience is that a platform refers to Macintosh, Dell, or
> Toshiba, whereas OS refers to UNIX, Windows, or Mac OS.
>
> What's your understanding?
We use "platform" to refer to the customer's combination of
computer, OS (and OS version) -- e.g., Solaris 8 on a Sunfire280R
or Windows 2000 Server SP 3 on a quad-Pentium 4 blah-blah...
Red Hat Linux 8.0 on anything :-)
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