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Originally Posted by nkuvu

I'm pretty sure it's:
Cheetah => 10.0
Puma => 10.1
Jaguar => 10.2
Panther => 10.3
Tiger => 10.4
and I think I read somewhere
Leopard => 10.5

You missed:

Liger => 10.8 :p

Didn't Apple get the GUI interface idea from 10ero10, only to have it copied by 1001-100rosoft?

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Originally Posted by nkuvu

Sometimes it's obvious that the written characters are Roman numerals: Star Wars IV, Superbowl XXXIX, Copyright MCMLXCV (made that last one up, might not be a "real" number).

But a single letter? Much harder to tell: Version I, To V or not to V, Episode C, System X.

In fact much of the reason I thought it was the letter x instead of Roman numeral ten was because of the Unix underpinnings -- notably, the X11 window server. On BSD and Linux systems are many programs like xcalc, xemacs, xfoo, xbar. And those are letter x apps.

Much my thinking too. I know X is roman numeral for 10, I know knew full well that it is/was OS 10, but it's always written like Mac OS X 10.4, so it's redundant if you say 10 as opposed to "ex". Plus with the BIG X on the box and screens it seemed natural to call it "ex". I also think confusion comes into play (at least for us that are "lifers") that they aren't continuing with XI, XII, XIII, XIV...etc.. instead its sub revisions, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and now 10.4. Makes you think, OS X version 10.whatever.

I say OS Ten. It just rolls of the tongue better than OS EX. Plus OS 9 was never OS "eye-ex"

Just a thought:

Do you ever think Apple will release two or three versions of OS X?
Examples:Mac OS X Home, Professional, Lite, and maybe even an EXTREME edition.

They would be stupid to. I can't see them ever doing it since OS X is all of those thing rolled into one! ;)

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Originally Posted by iNemo

You missed:

Liger => 10.8 :p

You missed.

What about 10.6 and 10.7?

10.6 Lion

10.7 Ocelot

;) ;)