Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by brobinson on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:01AM
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>The current version of Mac OS is Mac OS X (pronounced "Mac O-S ten").
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by 3poundkilograms on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:44AM
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I think he meant that it was not supposed to be "Mac Oh Es Ten Ten Nine Two", but rather "Mac Oh Es Ten Nine Two" when referring to Mac OS X 10.9.2. Do you think people said "Mac Oh Es Nine Nine One", or "Mac Oh Es Nine One" for Mac OS 9.1?
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by hunter2_ on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:56AM
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I think you write (and say as /ten/) "X" as the major version if you're also using the non-numeric minor version: "Mac OS X Snow Leopard"; but you omit it when using the numeric minor version so as to also use the Arabic major version: "Mac OS 10.6". You say /ten/ either way and never twice.
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by 3poundkilograms on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:11AM
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People seem to quite commonly write "Mac OS X 10.6", which duplicates the 10. News articles and Wikipedia included. I don't remember what the machines themselves reported, though. I don't have anything pre-Sierra anymore.
I'm pretty sure it was meant to be OS 10 the whole time. It succeeded OS 9.
If it was really meant to be "OS 10", then they wouldn't have versions like "OS X 10.6", they'd just have "OS X.6" or "OS X.VI". How many people do you hear saying "OS ten ten point six"?