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[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 04:30 PM Tuesday 5/20/2008, jon louis mann wrote:


>Safari?  I thought that was something called a browser, like Netscape,
>or Explorer, or Thunderbird, or Mozilla, Linux...?  What is OS X?



For what it's worth:

OS X, Windows (in all its different versions like 95, 98, NT, 2000, 
XP, Vista . . . ), and Linux are all what are called "operating 
systems."  An "operating system," frequently abbreviated "OS," is the 
main program which controls whatever happens on the 
computer.  Everything else which runs on the computer runs under the 
operating system, iow, the OS must be up and running properly before 
you can run any other programs on the computer.  (Some of the geeks 
here may point out that I am simplifying things here, but I'm trying 
to give you what you need, not teach another course in operating 
system design like I last taught about 20 years ago . . . ;))

Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla are all examples of 
"browsers."  A browser is a program which runs under an operating 
system and allows you to connect to the Internet and read web pages.

Thunderbird and Eudora (which I'm using at the moment) are examples 
of "mail programs."  A mail program runs under an operating system 
and allows you to read and write and send and receive e-mail.

To make things more complicated (naturally), many browsers have an 
e-mail feature which allows you to read and write and send and 
receive e-mail while in the browser.  Also, there are sites like 
Gmail and the mail feature at Yahoo! and many others where you can 
load a particular web page in your browser and read and write and 
send and receive e-mail while logged into that web page.  So you may 
indeed be using a browser to read and write and send and receive your 
Brin-list e-mail.  That's why William asked you to look up in the 
upper-left-hand corner of your screen where the name of the active 
program usually appears so hopefully someone here will recognize the 
name of the program and know something about how to manage its 
settings.  (Yes, all of them are different.  Frequently quite 
frustratingly so.  And like with every other program, familiarity 
with how it works takes practice.)

I'm sure some of the others here will be weighing in with their words 
of wisdom (probably much wiser than the above . . . )

HTH.


. . . ronn!  :)