Rust on macOS 9

Re:Rust on macOS 9 by Wowfunhappy on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:31PM (#34484355)

I disagree with the Wikipedia article's framing. There wasn't some sort of major rebrand in 2011, Apple just stopped writing "Mac" at the start of the name. Old-timers knew what it stood for.

It's like how "Mac" is still short for "Macintosh", even though Apple basically never uses the full name anymore.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by metadat on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:10PM (#34484613)

You can disagree, downvote, and flag all you want but it won't change reality. I remember the rebrand from OS-X to macOS firsthand circa something like 2010-2012.

At the time I found it mildly frustrating because of the stupid casing on top of the pointlessly annoying pedantic distinction destined to cause confusion. As if there were another "OS-X" of any significance.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by hedgehog on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:40PM (#34484816)

Your memory is incorrect. The branding sequence was System (from before I remember up to 7.5) -> Mac OS (7.6 to 9) -> Mac OS X (10.0 to ??) -> OS X (??) -> macOS (starting after 2015). Edit: Sibling comment from htimsenyawed looks right to me.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by htimsenyawed on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:38PM (#34484796)

macOS was originally Mac OS X and short referenced as OS X. The official name change from Mac OS X to macOS began with release 10.12 Sierra, the previous version was called Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. The transition to macOS from Mac OS X occurred in 2016 as that was the year that Sierra was announced and released.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by Nition on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:52PM (#34484896)

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as OS X, is in fact, Mac OS X, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, macOS.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by panzi on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:05AM (#34485703)

Also, and I'm not sure if I remember that correctly, I think during "Mac OS X" times they said it is pronounced as "mac OS ten", because X is the roman numeral for 10.

Wikipedia has references about it where Apple themselves even back then used either pronunciation, though. Also a reference that says while it stands for 10 it also references the X commonly found in many Unix things because of the Unix roots of Mac OS X.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by einherjae on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:59AM (#34486522)

You’re missing the intermediate transition to “OS X”

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by chungy on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:10PM (#34485029)

Apple a pretty big deal about all the rebrands. From "System" (verions 1-7), to "Mac OS" (8 and 9), to "Mac OS X" (10.0-10.7), to "OS X" (10.8-10.12), to "macOS" (10.13+).

It was clear that the OS wasn't thought of as a separate thing in the early days. The latest one looks like a typo.

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by amatecha on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:57PM (#34485647)

Indeed, you can see between 2011 and 2012 (for example) that Apple's PR site changed from calling it "Mac OS X" to simply calling it "OS X".

2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111130104524/http://www.apple....

2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20111130104524/http://www.apple....

Interestingly Lion was called "Mac OS X Lion" upon release[0], but then their website[1] called it "OS X Lion" predominantly.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2011/07/20Mac-OS-X-Lion-Avail...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110705041542/http://www.apple....

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by WatchDog on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:45AM (#34485901)

2012 link is the same as the 2011 link.

Actual 2012 link: https://web.archive.org/web/20121207053101/http://www.apple....

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Re:Rust on macOS 9 by amatecha on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:53AM (#34486226)

Woops, copy/paste struggles! Thanks, updated my 2012 link while I was still able to edit.

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