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>Mac OS X

MacOS. X means ten in Roman numbers.



Which is appropriate since OS 9 immediately preceded it and was indeed the meaning of it. They rebranded it to “macOS” with Big Sur I think, or later. In the early days which I referred to it absolutely was “Mac OS X”.


That people here don’t know it was called OSX for a long time makes me feel old. It was a stupid name but still.


Felt that more than a little too. I try to remember time didn’t start the day I turned 18, and likewise have at least learned all manner of things out of date or lesser used before my time (os2/warp comes to mind) out of just general interest. Even dos qualifies here.




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