SUPER SAIYAN@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agoWhy skip the 9? Is 9 the middle child?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down13
arrow-up149arrow-down1imageWhy skip the 9? Is 9 the middle child?lemmy.worldSUPER SAIYAN@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square24linkfedilink
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months 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-up1·7 months 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.
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.