os 11?

[RacerX]

Oh, will I dance in the streets, when Steve Jobs is forced to concede to my worldview and begin saying "Oss Exx." 😀

After 9 years of saying Mac OS X, I highly doubt anyone will ever see your dancing talents wasted on such an event.

🙄

For some of us who have been following this from the start, we heard "Mac OS 10" long before ever seeing Mac OS X in print. It is usually the mark of those who were late to the party to pronounce it like "Oss Exx". And generally I assume that people who call it that when spoken are either casual Mac users or switchers, but not experts or highly proficient with Macs.

And before the kernel identified itself as "Darwin" in Mac OS X, it called itself "Mac OS 10.0".

 

[mkrishnan]

I just like the way it sounds better and refuse to be constrained by reality.

Although I guess I am a switcher.

 

[Howard Brazee]

Let the "X" be a letter, not a number.

Look at what has happened with Superbowls - last year they had Extra Large (XL). They probably should stop with Roman Numerals with #50. We don't care whether a Superbowl was the 45th or 46th - and we don't care how many upgrades we bought for our OS.

 

[Max Payne]

I think of it like this. Mac OS X = Windows.

Microsoft windows x. x is 95, 98, Me, XP, Vista... etc.

Apple Mac OS X x. x is 10.1, 10.2, 10.3... etc.

 

[savar]

Proving once and for all that version numbering schemes are irrational 😛

B

I don't know about TeX, but try explaining the Java version numbering over the last 5 years to any end-user.

 

[manilikesmac]

i think that the mouse os's will be at os x.
and the multi touch os will be os 11.
cause steve jobs said in 5 years we all may be carrying tablets.
i mean os x is great for using a mouse, but for fingers it doesnt look so good.

 

[Willis]

someone just had to reopen a thread... almost 15 months after it was made!

Version numbers are there purely for marketing. What counts is the build numbers. Even then they can jump by 10 or so if not more.

I bet I will be hitting 40/50 before we see OS11

 

[wordy]

i mean os x is great for using a mouse, but for fingers it doesnt look so good.

How can you say this when you own a Touch? Air, iPhone and new MBPs are proof that fingers work even better than a mouse 🙂... and in OS X too.

 

[gnasher729]

OS 8 went from 1997 - 1999
OS 9 went from 1999 - 2001

That is misleading. The difference between OS 8 and OS 9 is about the same as between 10.4 and 10.5. I would compare Classic MacOS (1.0 to 9.x, from 1984 to 2001) to MacOS X.

 

[Dustman]

*shudders with the memory of OS 8*

 

[iMpathetic]

*shudders with the memory of OS 8*

Oh, come on! It was a lean, mean, useless machine! 😛

 

[richard.mac]

Let the "X" be a letter, not a number.

Look at what has happened with Superbowls - last year they had Extra Large (XL). They probably should stop with Roman Numerals with #50. We don't care whether a Superbowl was the 45th or 46th - and we don't care how many upgrades we bought for our OS.

you do realise that "XL" is the roman numeral for 40 and not just America's favourite sports jersey size 😉

the roman numeral "X" in "Mac OS X" is the name of the operating system like "Superbowl" and the version number is in numbers unlike the Superbowl which has is game/year number (i.e. version number) in roman numerals.

 

[McGiord]

Besides the naming topic, what kind of new features could the next OS have:
1-for Macs
2-for iPhones/mobile devices
3-for TV/entertainment centers

 

[MacAodh]

Every thing online, there should be no difference between getting a document off your computer or getting it off somewhere else.

 

[mkrishnan]

This is a 1.5-year-old thread about... basically nothing. Why bump it?