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    What's the X for?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Crimsonman, Jun 26, 2007.

  1. Crimsonman

    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    What's the X for in the OSX thing? I don't have a mac so it's probably a dumb question
     
    Crimsonman, Jun 26, 2007
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    Its a roman numeral, its 10. Operating system 10.
     
    trice1921, Jun 26, 2007
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    Oh I never thought of that
     
    Crimsonman, Jun 26, 2007
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    All this time I thought it was a reference to porn :rolleyes:
     
    JimyTheAssassin, Jun 26, 2007
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    ever noticed that the previous operating system for apple was os 9?
     
    masterchef341, Jun 26, 2007
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    Please refer to it as OS Ten. :p
     
    duffyanneal, Jun 26, 2007
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    Wait, so when you're talking about OSX in real life you people say "OS Ten?" Oh crap! I've been saying OS "X" for all this time.
     
    pennpaper, Jun 26, 2007
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    yeah everyone says "o-s-x" but i remember reading something in the documentation somwhere that sounded just like duffyanneal:

    ...properly referred to as "o-s-ten"...

    i laughed a while.
     
    masterchef341, Jun 26, 2007
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    If you say it fast, Mac OS Ten, is sounds rather nifty.
     
    cycloneguy2618, Jun 26, 2007
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    It comes naturally to us old schoolers that were accustomed to referring to the Mac OS as OS 7, 8, 9, etc.
     
    duffyanneal, Jun 26, 2007
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    Everyone (well, Steve Jobs does, so everyone, conform!!) calls it OS Ten, written OS X.

    That's what I always find interesting, I listen to podcasts and I hear all these people calling themselves Mac experts and they keep referring to it as OS "Ex".
     
    Sam, Jun 27, 2007
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    You know, everyone at my work thinks I am nuts now because I am standing at the computer going "macOSten macosten MACOSten"
     
    AlexOnFyre, Jun 27, 2007
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    All I get is "Mac Owes Us Ten". Which I interpret "Mac" as in "buddy", and your buddy owes you ten bucks :p.
     
    Sam, Jun 27, 2007
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    It's technically pronounced Mac OS-Ten, but I've always found it odd how they name the versions after that. They call it Mac OS X 10.4 or Mac OS X 10.5, which if you read it correctly, would be O-S-Ten-Ten-point-five... a little awkward.
     
    Paul, Jun 27, 2007
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    Its X because its completely different to OS9, main difference are the UNIX underpinnings
     
    Phritz, Jun 27, 2007
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    Ya, I too find it funny when "experts" call it OS 'X". It is OS "ten". Why worry about saying OS X 10.5 when we have cool names like Jaguar, Tiger, and Leopard?
     
    cashmonee, Jun 27, 2007
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    I say OSX, but I am quite aware of the "proper" name - it is just a habit really.

    As a sidenote, "osten" = "the cheese" in Swedish :p
     
    Starlight, Jun 27, 2007
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    The big question is what are they going to call the OS X successor?

    XI?
     
    thegsrguy, Jun 27, 2007
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    Its assumed that Mac OS X's successor would be Mac OS 11, as before it was Mac OS 9...but OS X sounds so good Apple might just keep that name forever :p. OS 10.12 :eek:
     
    Sam, Jun 27, 2007
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    If they like the X too much they might just make it.. OS XXX, for adults only
     
    JimyTheAssassin, Jun 27, 2007
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    I think it would be hard for Apple to lose the X now, as it's kind of become a staple for them. But at some point, they're going to have to move on to avoid becoming too stagnant.
     
    Paul, Jun 27, 2007
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    maybe they will pick a different letter.

    like.

    osV
    or
    osT
    osH
    osW

    on second thought, they have a pretty good track record with just naming them by number.

    i expect mac os11. but i will cry because that X is powerful. you know it has to be because its an X.
     
    masterchef341, Jun 27, 2007
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    theres still more service packs to go... Cougar and Lynx have been trademarked by Apple
     
    Phritz, Jun 27, 2007
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