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::My reasoning is based on personal experience. In the geeky places I frequent, both on- and offline, if a person mentions "Mac OS", it's generally understood that they're talking about either OSX, or the entire Mac OS line in general. (Context rules all.) To talk about pre-X versions, one would say "pre-X Mac OS" or "classic Mac OS", or refer to a specific version (i.e. "OS 8" or "System 6" or whatever). -- [[User:Eriksiers|Eriksiers]] 21:58, 28 October 2009 (UTC) |
::My reasoning is based on personal experience. In the geeky places I frequent, both on- and offline, if a person mentions "Mac OS", it's generally understood that they're talking about either OSX, or the entire Mac OS line in general. (Context rules all.) To talk about pre-X versions, one would say "pre-X Mac OS" or "classic Mac OS", or refer to a specific version (i.e. "OS 8" or "System 6" or whatever). -- [[User:Eriksiers|Eriksiers]] 21:58, 28 October 2009 (UTC) |
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: Agree, but reluctantly. Technically speaking, Mac OS X is Mac OS X, and Mac OS is Mac OS. However, with the obsolescence of Mac OS and its virtual disappearance from the market and the attentions of programmers, people (notably those not old enough to remember Mac OS) looking for and considering programming resources will be thinking along the same lines that Eriksiers observed. For supporting analogy, one doesn't normally include Win16 in discussions of writing for Windows, or even Windows 9x, for that matter. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 23:16, 28 October 2009 (UTC) |
: Agree, but reluctantly. Technically speaking, Mac OS X is Mac OS X, and Mac OS is Mac OS. However, with the obsolescence of Mac OS and its virtual disappearance from the market and the attentions of programmers, people (notably those not old enough to remember Mac OS) looking for and considering programming resources will be thinking along the same lines that Eriksiers observed. For supporting analogy, one doesn't normally include Win16 in discussions of writing for Windows, or even Windows 9x, for that matter. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 23:16, 28 October 2009 (UTC) |
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::Funny thing is, I don't even ''own'' a copy of OSX (newest version I have is OS 8; kinda hard to run OS X on a 68k Mac) but I ''do'' still use Win16. -- [[User:Eriksiers|Eriksiers]] 23:28, 28 October 2009 (UTC) |
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