diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index be1eb0f..f2d863c 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
    ``'posix'``, ``'nt'``), and *compiler*  defaults to the default compiler for
    that platform. Currently only ``'posix'`` and ``'nt'`` are supported, and the
    default compilers are "traditional Unix interface" (:class:`UnixCCompiler`
-   class) and Visual C++(:class:`MSVCCompiler` class).  Note that it's perfectly
+   class) and Visual C++ (:class:`MSVCCompiler` class).  Note that it's perfectly
    possible to ask for a Unix compiler object under Windows, and a Microsoft
    compiler object under Unix---if you supply a value for *compiler*, *plat* is
    ignored.
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
index c4b8dbf..58b62f8 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
@@ -302,8 +302,8 @@
 
 If you have a pure module distribution (only containing pure Python modules and
 packages), the resulting installer will be version independent and have a name
-like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`.  These installers can even be created on Unix or
-Mac OS platforms.
+like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`.  These installers can even be created on Unix
+platforms or Mac OS X.
 
 If you have a non-pure distribution, the extensions can only be created on a
 Windows platform, and will be Python version dependent. The installer filename
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst b/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst
index f5f0220..fbe40de 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 character, and ``[range]`` matches any of the characters in *range* (e.g.,
 ``a-z``, ``a-zA-Z``, ``a-f0-9_.``).  The definition of "regular filename
 character" is platform-specific: on Unix it is anything except slash; on Windows
-anything except backslash or colon; on Mac OS 9 anything except colon.
+anything except backslash or colon.
 
 **\*\*** Windows support not there yet **\*\***
 
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
index 616b99c..8bbcb29 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@
 whatever is appropriate on your current platform before actually using the
 pathname.  This makes your setup script portable across operating systems, which
 of course is one of the major goals of the Distutils.  In this spirit, all
-pathnames in this document are slash-separated.  (Mac OS 9 programmers should
-keep in mind that the *absence* of a leading slash indicates a relative path,
-the opposite of the Mac OS convention with colons.)
+pathnames in this document are slash-separated.
 
 This, of course, only applies to pathnames given to Distutils functions.  If
 you, for example, use standard Python functions such as :func:`glob.glob` or