Is it OS-Ten or OS-Ecks?

Oh, sure, it followed OS9 so it must be OS-Ten but I think
Apple just couldn't resist the play on letters and digits
and went for what they thought would be cool --
that is, the X that simultaneously represents uniX and 10.

I personally believe that it is OS-Ecks just like
Linux, Ultrix, Xenix, AIX and even A/UX and, for that matter.
even Minix.

Because the X in Mac OS X is part of the name and not the version,
it will always be Mac OS X until they abandon Unix which may be never
or it may be in 15 years -- I can't imagine that I could be any good
at predicting the future.

When they realized their goof with Mac OS X 1.0 and went to
10.0 through 10.5, it was because they wanted to continue
the version numbering from 9 to 10 even though the OS got renamed
so I suppose we could eventually see a Mac OS X 11.0.

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