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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 281

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 281. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Second major version in 20 years came from the south near Carmel.

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Big Sur

Second major version in 20 years (it was the first increment to the Mac OS version number since Mac OS X 10.0) came from the south (Spanish ‘sur’) near Carmel (Big Sur is a section of rugged coast near Carmel, California).

2: Last stand for 32 is the desert with the valley of death.

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Mojave

Last stand for 32 (it’s the last version of macOS to support 32-bit code) is the desert (it’s one of the major deserts in North America) with the valley of death (it’s where Death Valley is located).

3: Fastest and first of ten sounds like a fraudster.

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Cheetah

Fastest (it’s the fastest land animal) and first of ten (first version of Mac OS X) sounds like a fraudster (a cheater).

The common factor

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They were each prominent versions of Mac OS X and later.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.