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And then two.

Then three.

Then three point one one.

Then ninety-five.

Then ninety-eight.

Then two thousand.

Perfect numerical naming convention!



I like calculator numbering - the bigger the number, the lamer the calculator.


Not unlike OSX, then?


The "X" means 10. The previous version was MacOS 9.


Yeah, but we've now had 10 "minor" releases of OSX, over the span of 13 years. If they followed any sort of version conventions, we wouldn't be at 10.9 right now, we'd be at 19. Each of the point releases should have had a new major version bump.


Yes, that was precisely my point.

We are at version 9.1 of version 10.


I think it's better that way than Java or Chrome version numbers.

Chrome will be into the triple digits soon.




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