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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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