There is no MacOS. There is no MacOSX, nor MacOS9, nor OSX.
There are two operating systems, Mac OS, and Mac OS X. The former is currently at version 9.2.2, and the latter at 10.1.5. The full names are "Mac OS 9.2.2" and "Mac OS X 10.1.5". Throw in a "v" or "version" if you like.
Using "OSX" is barely acceptable, if only because so many people use it, but it is too non-specific: what is "X"? If "OSX" is to be used for "Mac OS X", then why not "OS" to refer to "Mac OS"? It should be avoided.
"MacOSX" is not acceptable, nor any other form omitting the space between "Mac" and "OS". Using "Mac OS" to mean "Mac OS X" is not acceptable; they are two different operating systems. "Mac OS 9" is acceptable, to distinguish it from previous versions of Mac OS, and barely acceptable to distinguish it from "Mac OS X", only because so many people incorrectly use "Mac OS" to refer to "Mac OS X".
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Re:OSX
pudge on 2002-08-07T02:38:14
Is OS 10.
No, it's not. There is no Mac OS 10. It is Mac OS X, version 10.
Afterall was it not common to call prior versions OS 9 etc.?
There is no version of Mac OS *after* version 9, so it isn't "prior" to anything. Mac OS X is not Mac OS; Mac OS 9 is not a prior version of Mac OS, it is the current version.
Mac OS and Mac OS X are different operating systems; it makes no sense to say that Mac OS X is a later version of the same OS, or that Mac OS 9 is an earlier version of the same OS. They are not the same OS, they are different. Hence, they have different names.
Regardless, no, no one called it "OS 9" or "OS 8". I'd never once heard that, until Mac OS X came along.
This of course makes/MacOS X v?10\.\d+/ incredibly redundant/l4m3.
It is not redundant at all, as "X" is not part of the version, it is part of the name. It sounds redundant when you say it out loud, but it is not actually redundant.
And there is no such thing operating system as "MacOS".
Re:OSX
kasei on 2002-08-07T18:33:48
Regardless, no, no one called it "OS 9" or "OS 8". I'd never once heard that, until Mac OS X came along.
I did. And still do. Please don't confuse what you have never heard with what doesn't exist. In the context of "Mac OS," I find "OS 8", "OS 9", and "OS X" all perfectly acceptable.Re:OSX
pudge on 2002-08-07T18:41:43
I'm sorry if you take literally a statement like "no one ever said that," since it is impossible to take literally...
And while you may find them acceptable, I do not. You are free to find them acceptable, and I am free to think they are stupid.:) Re:OSX
koschei on 2002-08-08T00:36:44
To be honest, I still use the term 'System', as in System 6, System 7, System 9 =)
Re:OSX
pudge on 2002-08-08T01:19:09
Well, that's wrong, too.:D I can't remember when they made the switch. I know it was Macintosh System 7.5 and Mac OS 8. I can't recall if 7.6 was Mac OS, or Macintosh System.
