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7 days 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.
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I see you are a person of refinement and taste.
The X in MacOS X is not a Roman numeral.
It’s the X from NeXT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
The original Mac software had an emulator to run when OS X came out, but NeXTStep was a different system entirely and not just an iteration on the same OS.
Cute comic though.
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.