Mac OS 9 is absolutely a thing, 1999-2001.
And Mac OS 10.9 was Mavericks, in 2013.
In this case I think they mean iPhone 9, which I’m still saving my money for
yeah, they released 8 and X simultaneously, what should they do next? release 9/11? badum tssss
Number 9 is sometimes pronounced ku — with the same pronunciation as agony or torture.
And the same pronunciation as “no” in German.
In Cantonese, the number 9 is also a vulgar way of saying penis (𨳊, Cantonese Yale: gāu)In French, 9 sounds like “new” (neuf).
In the mean time, Plan 9, since 1992,
I see you are a person of refinement and taste.
Because 7 ate 9???
Nice
Newer software aimed at newer Windows versions usually had a code that checked the user’s Windows version. If the version began with a 9, it was interpreted as one of the Windows 9x operating systems, for which the software was unsupported. If that was the case, the user couldn’t run the software at all. Microsoft wanted to prevent such situation from happening with a new Windows release, so they skipped straight to 10.
There was a function that would give you a monotonically-increasing build number that you could compare against the build that any given feature was added in that people should have used, but there was also a function that gave you the name of the OS, and lots of people just checked if that contained a 9. The documentation explicitly said not to do that because it might stop working, but the documentation has never stopped people using the wrong function.
What the fuck does this mean?
OS I think ? There’s no Windows 9, so I’m guessing there is no iOS 9 either ?
Idk about loses, but there definitely is a Mac OS 9 …
I guess it was just not relevant to the meme maker and I’m old. :(
There was no iPhone 9.
Don’t skip 9.
I guarantee this is because they think people are so stupid they’ll see it as a 6 and think it’s 2 down from 8 instead of one up.
(They’re right)
Windows did it because every programmer/scriptkiddie/etc ever checked if the version was 95/98 by looking for the 9, instead of separate checks for both.
programmer/scriptkiddie/etc
cd: no such file or directory
You don’t have a ~/programmer/script kiddie/etc directory? I thought everyone did.
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.
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.
