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The TEN is important
Authored by: el bid on Jan 20, '03 02:29:56AM

Steve did something really clever renaming NeXTStep "Mac OS X" (pronounced "ten"). Clever, but not smart.

With the new OS, Apple joined the UNIX community -- where "X" (pronounced "ex") already had a well-established and very important significance with which Steve's "X" was set on a collision course. If you thought calling an operating system "Mac OS Ten ten-point-one" was veering towards dumb, what happens when Apple's own (very good, incidentally) version of X (the real UNIX X) arrives. Now we have "X11 for Mac OS X 10.2". And then when Steve's next major version of the current OS arrives, presumably with Apple's X (the real UNIX X) bundled in? "Mac OS XI featuring X11".

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el bid



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