Is OS X shaping up to be the "new" system 7?
It seems as if OS X is becoming a bit like System 7 was. You know, a revolutionary new OS that will take a while to perfect.
I suppose the main difference would be that system 7 was quite unstable while OS X is extremely stable. Still, OS X has the potential to be around FOREVER just like System 7... it was released in the early 90s around the same time as the Quadra line, and it wasn't retired until 1997 with the Beige G3s.
Just idle speculation...
I suppose the main difference would be that system 7 was quite unstable while OS X is extremely stable. Still, OS X has the potential to be around FOREVER just like System 7... it was released in the early 90s around the same time as the Quadra line, and it wasn't retired until 1997 with the Beige G3s.
Just idle speculation...
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While OS XI doesn't apeal, OS 11 sounds okay.
<strong>I agree with the system 7 analogee. Apple will stick with X naming scheme for awhile.
While OS XI doesn't apeal, OS 11 sounds okay.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think Apple will stay with the 10.X naming scheme for awhile. It might take quite long (i think) for us to get to OS XI (11). Just going from 10.0.x to 10.2.3 is like going from OS 8 to OS 9.
<strong>OS Y</strong><hr></blockquote>
OS Y may sound corny, but i like it!!
<strong>OS Y</strong><hr></blockquote>
Y would anyone want to use that?
<strong>Still, OS X has the potential to be around FOREVER just like System 7... </strong><hr></blockquote>
If Apple's able to follow the path NeXt laid out by using Frameworks to support the APIs and getting people to really stick to the guidelines, X should be around a lot longer. Or, at least, current programs should have a much longer lifetime anyway.
One of the nice things about NeXt was you didn't need to scramble around upgrading everything everytime a 'new better way' was introduced - because they could coexist peacefully.
This doesn't apply so much to things like disk formatters, but little non-hardware tools should 'just keep working'.
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Things get better. We wont be staring at Jaguar, or Puma, or Panther, or (insert big cat name here) forever. Lots of relatively small changes (like 10.0 to 10.1, 10.1 to 10.2) add up to a HELL of a lot.
<strong>can you imagine looking back at 10.2 in a couple years and it being like using 9 and looking back to 7?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Just look at 10.2 to the Public Beta. Wow.
The numbering scheme has changed. The X.0, X.5, XI.0... is gone. At the pace they're going 10.9 is a long way off.
our OS goes to eleven!!!
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Y would anyone want to use that?</strong><hr></blockquote>
'cause Steve just looooves sci-fi movies, and Mac OS Y sounds quite futurish..
[year2014]
..."Buy the new Mac OS Y, the same OS the United European Deus Ex Swat Team uses in their search for terroists!"...
[/year2014]
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Just look at 10.2 to the Public Beta. Wow.
The numbering scheme has changed. The X.0, X.5, XI.0... is gone. At the pace they're going 10.9 is a long way off.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Think about it.. Had they used this scheme, then we would be at around Mac OS 3.6 now...! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Just like 7 it will evolve into a 9 that a new generation of mac users will swear by.
just like 9 it will need to be replaced to howls of dismay.
then the cycle will start again.
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My sentiments.
Lemon Bon Bon :cool:
I liked System 7
So yes. 'X' has a similar comparison. I'm really looking forward to Panther..!
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