Boot Camp Assistant Innards: The "Other" OS
I downloaded Boot Camp yesterday, despite the fact that I don't have an Intel Mac and, therefore, cannot actually run the assistant. But I wanted to try, and I wanted to poke around to, just to see what I could see. The bulk of the Boot Camp Assistant's 80 MBs is taken up by the drivers needed for Windows to use the Mac's hardware, which live on a disk image called simply, "DiskImage.dmg." The rest of the dmg contains the usual binaries, plists and background images common to applications. But I did find one amusing — albeit only slightly — item: The Mac OS X logo image contained in the application is called "MacOSX.png;" the Windows logo is called "Other.png."
Don't know why, but it made me chuckle. Just a bit.
That "Other" Logo
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UPDATE:
A characteristically awesome article at one of my favorite blogs, Daring Fireball, also notes that the whitespace in the "Other" logo forms a subliminal "X." See, it's not just me.
Don't know why, but it made me chuckle. Just a bit.
The Mac OS X Logo Inside the Boot Camp Assistant
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That "Other" Logo
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UPDATE:
A characteristically awesome article at one of my favorite blogs, Daring Fireball, also notes that the whitespace in the "Other" logo forms a subliminal "X." See, it's not just me.
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9:16 PMI my opinion it is called "other" because it gets used for other operating systems, not just Windows and not just one special release of that. Maybe too simple for you, dunno.
The logo reminds strongly of the windows flag. And the X - man, one can read anything into something if he wants ;-)
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