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That's a bad name collision, "Horizon" is the name of the OS on the Nintendo 3ds and switch.
by RobotToaster 3y ago
That's a bad name collision, "Horizon" is the name of the OS on the Nintendo 3ds and switch.
- _joel 3y agoAnd also for people following the UK news, the name of the Fujitsu/Post Office software that led to a not insignificant number of sub-postmasters being falsely convited in the largest miscarriages of British justice ever (maybe anywhere). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
- darkhorse13 3y agoLiterally nobody knows this though. Even searching for "Horizon OS" only returns Meta stuff already.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoYeah - while I've never dived too deeply, I have modded my 3DS a fair bit and didn't know what the OS was codenamed. I've always just seen it called 3DS OS, native firm, etc.
- sb8244 3y agoEh, I don't think this is a bad name collision. Nintendo doesn't really talk about stuff like this publicly, and searching for it is pretty much reddit + hacker news threads. I'm sure there's a lot of internal code name collisions.
- lsllc 3y agoThere's precedent, when Apple named iOS, Cisco had (and still has) IOS. They just came to some licensing settlement for Apple's use of the name [0]. Actually, it looks like Apple also licensed the iPhone trademark from Cisco too! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS#:~:text=In%20June%202010%2C%20Apple%20rebranded,IOS%2C%20used%20on%20its%20routers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS#:~:text=In%20June%202010%2....