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Mac OS Y

I don't know why people don't like "Mac OS XI"
There's no restriction that "XI" has to be represented with Roman numerals, is there?
Think of the possibilities ... East Asian Languages come to mind for me.

By the way, the symbol in the attachment is the capitalized greek letter "xi".
I don't like the lowercase one as much (it's some weird curl thing).
And it wouldn't have been an attachment if i could figure out how to type it without getting a question mark.
 

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MisterMe said:
This line of reasoning continues that "MacOS X" really stands for "Mac OpenStep eXtended," which it is.
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I seriously hope I misunderstood your post and this was a joke, if not what the hell are you smoking!! Its quite simple Macintosh Operating System 10, Open Step has such a small presences in the modern OS why would they put it in the name.
 
abrooks said:
...Open Step has such a small presences in the modern OS...
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Could you define small for all of us? Because no matter how you divide up Mac OS X, a lot of it came directly from OPENSTEP (far more than came from Mac OS 8/9).

Just curious. :D
 
Why?

solvs said:
I'm sure they have a whole team of people working on what the next gen OS will be called.
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The next generation of the Mac OS won't be available for years. I remember Steve Jobs saying the previous OS lasted for 15 years, and he believed this generation would last just as long.
 
slooksterPSV said:
OS 1 - 9.2.2 - naming conventions kinda confusing people have seen os 1-9 and not sure about X
OS X - finally got a strong #
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Sorry to sound pedantic, but wasn't MacOS pre-8 known as "System"? Eg., System 1 - System 7.x then followed by Max OS 8 - X, and as already pointed out pronounced 10 not 'Ex' -- hence the next gen will surely be XI '11'?!?
 
screensaver400 said:
Funny, XX is female, XY is male. And its impossible to have a YY human (the Y-chromosome contains almost no genes)
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Maby rather this.......(.Y.)....... :D
 
Never saw the (.Y.) before (i think) but it's great (!:D!), and it gives me an excuse to think of breasts when seeing a capital y.

I hope i can now say in al honesty that my mind is a little less ****ed-up then i though it was.
 
RacerX said:
Could you define small for all of us? Because no matter how you divide up Mac OS X, a lot of it came directly from OPENSTEP (far more than came from Mac OS 8/9).

Just curious. :D
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OK I'll bow down on this one I was kinda just looking for something to back me up even though it seems to have backfired :rolleyes:

So to clarify for everyone OPENSTEP is a pretty large amount of the original Mac OS X but is slowly being replaced with better technologies and of course Cocoa which is developed from OPENSTEP and NeXTSTEP.

So my apologies on this one but OS still stands for Operating System.
 
mad jew said:
That's awesome! :D

I'd never seen that before.
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Hheheh...I like it.... :p :D :D :D

And it is pretty cool ;)

Then also another vesion.....(.)(.) :p But no "Y" :eek:
 
redeye_be said:
Never saw the (.Y.) before (i think) but it's great (!:D!), and it gives me an excuse to think of breasts when seeing a capital y.

I hope i can now say in al honesty that my mind is a little less ****ed-up then i though it was.
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Thanks ;)

I don't you your mind is ****ed up either :p
 
abrooks said:
OK I'll bow down on this one I was kinda just looking for something to back me up even though it seems to have backfired :rolleyes:

So to clarify for everyone OPENSTEP is a pretty large amount of the original Mac OS X but is slowly being replaced with better technologies and of course Cocoa which is developed from OPENSTEP and NeXTSTEP.

So my apologies on this one but OS still stands for Operating System.
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It isn't being replaced and most of the Cocoa classes come directly from NeXTSTEP, hence the NS in front of them. As long as OS X is around, so will the NeXTSTEP classes that are used when programming for it.
 
Platform said:
Then also another vesion.....(.)(.) :p But no "Y" :eek:
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I always liked this versions used "o" rather than ".".

:rolleyes:

But considering that this is something of a family friendly forum I would think that this version might be more appropriate:

( \Y/ )
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"OS X" will be around for a nice long while, into the next decade. It's a great ambiguous name with marketing potential and mindshare.

After that, I could see them dropping the roman numeral and going to "OS 11." But I could also see them dropping the number all together and sticking with codenames, which have already become official monikers. Mac OS "Cougar" works.
 
Mac OS 11 will probably be OS XI - 90% sure about that.

Either way, OS 11 will not be out until 2008 the earliest. We still have 10.5 (late 2006 I'm guessing) to go before the last OS X updates are finished and then we move to 11.
 
BlackDan said:
Maybe they can call it X2 instead of OS 11
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Or X2 with a superscript 2. Either one is better than the awkwardness of pronouncing Mac OS X XI or Mac OS X 11 as ("ten eleven"). Dropping the X and calling it Mac OS 11 might be OK, but not very exciting.
 
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