SUPER SAIYAN@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · edit-21 day agoWhy skip the 9? Is 9 the middle child?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down116
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minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·23 hours agoUhm no? The X is a Roman numeral and makes sense as it succeeded classic OS 9. OSX is based on NeXTStep though an Objective-C still carries its prefix with it (all Types are prefixed with NS for example NSString)
minus-squaretenchiken@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoThen why was it referred to as Mac os X 10, Mac os X 10.1, Mac os X 10.5 etc? Dept of redundancy Dept I guess? There are many more examples.
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 hours agoBut it wasn’t referred to Mac os X 10.1 etc only as Mac OS 10.1 or their respective codename (cheetah, tiger, …)
minus-squaretenchiken@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agohttps://support.apple.com/en-us/106545 Or perhaps https://support.apple.com/en-au/102496 Keep going. I’m sure you’ll convince Apple. They later renamed things a bit moving forward. That doesn’t change the history of it.
Uhm no? The X is a Roman numeral and makes sense as it succeeded classic OS 9. OSX is based on NeXTStep though an Objective-C still carries its prefix with it (all Types are prefixed with NS for example NSString)
Then why was it referred to as Mac os X 10, Mac os X 10.1, Mac os X 10.5 etc?
Dept of redundancy Dept I guess?
There are many more examples.
But it wasn’t referred to Mac os X 10.1 etc only as Mac OS 10.1 or their respective codename (cheetah, tiger, …)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/106545
Or perhaps https://support.apple.com/en-au/102496
Keep going. I’m sure you’ll convince Apple.
They later renamed things a bit moving forward.
That doesn’t change the history of it.