Why is Apple stuttering with its version numbering?
I "Mac OS X" is really "Mac OS Ten" rather than "Mac OS Ecks" (or "Mac OS UN*X"!), then saying "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther" makes you sound like a CB radio fan ("Transmission completed, standing by... 3 Panther" "What - you're standing by three panthers?!?! But I digress... )
Apple should already have done what Sun did with Solaris:... 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8,...
If Apple had called Panther "Max OS X 3" it would have made it clear that it isn't just a "bug fix" release.
Maybe next time... "Mac OS X 4 Lynx [or some other big cat]".
Looking further ahead, Apple must avoid the strange beast that is "Mac OS XI"... but then again "Mac OS [funky Greek letter]" would be cool (if difficult to post on/.)!
the various BSDs... are now holding a relatively niche market space.
That niche including the largest number of installed copies of a genetic-Unix desktop OS than of all other desktop Unix variants combined (including Linux)... ?
Of course, Mac OS X Server isn't doing quite as well... (yet).
The most experimental music to be found in
2001 is that of the contemporary experimental composer György Ligeti, whose turbulent choral atonality combines, for Kubricks purposes, the unease of inexplicable occurrence with the adventurous strangeness of the utterly new. The choral phrases of the Requiem, each overriding the one before, create a layering of laments that emerge like the sound of battling winds. This music accompanies the first appearance of the monolith and reflects the furor into which it sweeps the band of man-apes. A portion of the piece is heard again as Discovery is guided by a floating monolith into Jupiter space.
The less turbulent, more wondrous, Lux Aeterna accompanies the low-level flight of the moon bus that carries Dr. Floyd to the site of the excavated monolith, and his teams subsequent approach to the mysterious artifact”. The disorienting and adventurous Atmospheres” expresses the danger and drama of Bowmans dizzying light show flight through Jupiters atmosphere [sic] towards his destiny. Another use of Ligetis music occurs in the sequence in the 18th century room in which Bowman lives out his life. The presense of his extraterrestrial zookeepers was suggested by surreal, laughterlike sounds created by altering an excerpt from a Ligeti composition [Adventures]. (Ligeti reportedly took successful legal action for the unauthorized modification of his music.)
The CD includes the original, unaltered version of Adventures, as well as the altered version. It also includes a full-length version of Lux Aeterna. And a HAL dialog montage!
I've worked on IBM mainframes for nearly 15 years, and I don't ever remember MVS being called OS/MVS, it was just MVS, pure and simple. None of this fancy "OS" stuff?
(By the way, who was the first company to call its operating system a name with "OS" in? Surely not Apple, with Mac OS 8?)
When I started, we were already using System 370 (and I heard the explanation that this was an extension of the "full circle" System 360), and MVS was probably MVS/370 at that time (but I'm a little hazy).
I don't recall hearing of S/380, just MVS's mutation through:
MVS/XA - eXtended Architecture
MVS/ESA - Enterprise System Architecture
One of these - XA? - introduced a 31-bit architecture.
And then along came OS/390, fully formed from the waves, with MVS at its core, plus what was called OpenEdition MVS and later came out of the closet as UNIX System Services. (But the OMVS acronym is embedded in the operating system software.)
Clearly, the logical next name (counting in steps of 10) would have collided with the AS/400 operating system name, so something new was called for... A complete rebadging of the hardware side. All machines are now eservers, in different series... and there is logic behind the letters (at least some of them).
mainframes: zSeries - z for zero down time (IBM hope).
RS/6000: pSeries - p for performance.
AS/400: iSeries - i for integrated application server.
Intel-based: xSeries - x for the ptx operating system. NUMA architecture (anyone remember NUMA-Q?) Can run Linux stuff via LAE on ptx, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating systems.
So, logically, AIX should become p/OS; OS/400, i/OS; and ptx, x/OS (not OS X!)
Rather than just translating "Communications Security" into Finnish, I think I should have been a little more lateral. If the company changed its name to the Finnish for, say, "Skillful Security": TaitavaTurva... or TaTu! (Shame tatu.com is taken.)
As a kind of outsider (MVS, not Unix, security), it seems to me that SSH Communications Security Corp. of Finland is causing more confusion among consumers by using a well-established protocol and command name as part of its company name and as part of the names of other products that don't (cmiiw!) use the secure shell protocol.
American Biometric Company Inc. changed its name to Ankari Inc. to emphasize that it doesn't offer just biometric products. Maybe SSH... Corp. should change its name to emphasize that it offers many more products than just SSH(R) Secure Shell(TM). TietoliikenneTurva, maybe. (Anyone who actually speaks Finnish care to help me out here?) (It's about as meaningful to the rest of us as Ankari.)
And for that matter, maybe it should change the name of its ssh product as well: TT-SSH?
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Why is Apple stuttering with its version numbering?
I "Mac OS X" is really "Mac OS Ten" rather than "Mac OS Ecks" (or "Mac OS UN*X"!), then saying "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther" makes you sound like a CB radio fan ("Transmission completed, standing by... 3 Panther" "What - you're standing by three panthers?!?! But I digress... )
Apple should already have done what Sun did with Solaris: ... 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, ...
If Apple had called Panther "Max OS X 3" it would have made it clear that it isn't just a "bug fix" release.
Maybe next time... "Mac OS X 4 Lynx [or some other big cat]".
Looking further ahead, Apple must avoid the strange beast that is "Mac OS XI"... but then again "Mac OS [funky Greek letter]" would be cool (if difficult to post on /.)!
Exactly! No-one expected them to...
... and so also Steve jObs?
(And, thinking anagrammatically, Obj-S could be a new Cocoa programming language.)
That niche including the largest number of installed copies of a genetic-Unix desktop OS than of all other desktop Unix variants combined (including Linux)... ?
Of course, Mac OS X Server isn't doing quite as well... (yet).
This is Apple Computer selling music, isn't it? Not Apple Corp...
re: 4. People who drink and drive tend to die more often
No... only once, just like everyone else.
... everyone will be programming in Objective-C anyway. Using Cocoa on Mac OS X. Or maybe GNUstep if they insist on using other OSes.
Would we have to use Duck tape for carrier mallards?
see Adrian Berrys The Next 500 Years (1995), Chapter 5, "The Death of History".
From the sleeve notes of the 1996 soundtrack CD:
The CD includes the original, unaltered version of Adventures, as well as the altered version. It also includes a full-length version of Lux Aeterna. And a HAL dialog montage!
Pulling a few threads together...
I've worked on IBM mainframes for nearly 15 years, and I don't ever remember MVS being called OS/MVS, it was just MVS, pure and simple. None of this fancy "OS" stuff?
(By the way, who was the first company to call its operating system a name with "OS" in? Surely not Apple, with Mac OS 8?)
When I started, we were already using System 370 (and I heard the explanation that this was an extension of the "full circle" System 360), and MVS was probably MVS/370 at that time (but I'm a little hazy).
I don't recall hearing of S/380, just MVS's mutation through:
One of these - XA? - introduced a 31-bit architecture.
And then along came OS/390, fully formed from the waves, with MVS at its core, plus what was called OpenEdition MVS and later came out of the closet as UNIX System Services. (But the OMVS acronym is embedded in the operating system software.)
Clearly, the logical next name (counting in steps of 10) would have collided with the AS/400 operating system name, so something new was called for... A complete rebadging of the hardware side. All machines are now e servers, in different series... and there is logic behind the letters (at least some of them).
So, logically, AIX should become p/OS; OS/400, i/OS; and ptx, x/OS (not OS X!)
But it's not going to happen...
Do I loose karma for replying to my own post?
Rather than just translating "Communications Security" into Finnish, I think I should have been a little more lateral. If the company changed its name to the Finnish for, say, "Skillful Security": TaitavaTurva... or TaTu! (Shame tatu.com is taken.)
As a kind of outsider (MVS, not Unix, security), it seems to me that SSH Communications Security Corp. of Finland is causing more confusion among consumers by using a well-established protocol and command name as part of its company name and as part of the names of other products that don't (cmiiw!) use the secure shell protocol.
American Biometric Company Inc. changed its name to Ankari Inc. to emphasize that it doesn't offer just biometric products. Maybe SSH ... Corp. should change its name to emphasize that it offers many more products than just SSH(R) Secure Shell(TM). TietoliikenneTurva, maybe. (Anyone who actually speaks Finnish care to help me out here?) (It's about as meaningful to the rest of us as Ankari.)
And for that matter, maybe it should change the name of its ssh product as well: TT-SSH?
This might reflect better on Tatu...