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I've never seen os x written like that. I assumed it was a version of os/2 I had never heard of.

by MangoToupe 1y ago

tonyedgecombe 1y ago
Not only that but it hasn't been called OS/X for nearly a decade.
- dylan604 1y ago
  was it ever called OS/X?
  - Wowfunhappy 1y ago
    It was called OS X and/or Mac OS X. But now, not only is it not branded OS X, but it’s literally not at version 10 anymore. (The X was a roman numeral.)
    - dylan604 1y ago
      It was a rhetorical question. Yes, I'm well aware it was OS X and that it was never referred to as OS/X
- runjake 1y ago
  It was never called "OS/X"[1]. I've never even seen it called that colloquially until today. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS
deathwarmedover 1y ago
I wondered initially if this was a winamp port for older macs. It requires macOS 13.0 (High Sierra, 2017) or later, which is several releases after it stopped being called OS X. 10.11 (El Capitan, 2015) was the last OS X.
- Jeremy1026 1y ago
  The repo only goes back a week. I just think OP hasn't kept up with Apple's naming conventions.
- Wowfunhappy 1y ago
  Careful! High Sierra is actually macOS 10.13. By contrast, macOS 13 is Ventura, from 2022. (I personally would accept someone referring to High Sierra as “OS X” because it’s still version 10 of the Macintosh OS, even if Apple dropped that branding a few years earlier.)
- rollcat 1y ago
  As an occasional enjoyer of OS X 10.5 on PowerPC, I can recommend... iTunes. It is actually really decent, as is most of Jobs-era stuff. I don't have anything to play FLAC or Vorbis, but the machine has more urgent problems... <https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/ https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/>
jonhohle 1y ago
Not taking anything away from the project, which looks very cool, but it also probably doesn’t compile on OS X. Looks like minimum macOS version is 13.
HeckFeck 1y ago
IBM won the long game. They secretly acquired Apple, but you weren't meant to know that yet. Not even Tim Cook knows. Big Blue's lawyers will be writing politely to the author of this project, and teaming up with the gutted remains of Nullsoft to sue them for copyright infringement.
wheybags 1y ago
Of course they mean OS/X Warp, the Apple x IBM OS collaboration the world forgot.
- linguae 1y ago
  I know this was in jest, but had some of Apple’s and IBM’s 1990s plans came to fruition, we could’ve ended up with an operating system capable of running both OS/2 and Taligent (the original planned successor to the classic Mac OS) applications on PowerPC hardware (one of the few parts of the Apple/IBM collaboration that was realized): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS OS/X Warp sounds a lot cooler than Workplace OS.
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I've never seen os x written like that. I assumed it was a version of os/2 I had never heard of.

tonyedgecombe 1y ago

Not only that but it hasn't been called OS/X for nearly a decade.

dylan604 1y ago
was it ever called OS/X?
- Wowfunhappy 1y ago
  It was called OS X and/or Mac OS X. But now, not only is it not branded OS X, but it’s literally not at version 10 anymore. (The X was a roman numeral.)
  - dylan604 1y ago
    It was a rhetorical question. Yes, I'm well aware it was OS X and that it was never referred to as OS/X
runjake 1y ago
It was never called "OS/X"[1]. I've never even seen it called that colloquially until today. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

deathwarmedover 1y ago

I wondered initially if this was a winamp port for older macs. It requires macOS 13.0 (High Sierra, 2017) or later, which is several releases after it stopped being called OS X. 10.11 (El Capitan, 2015) was the last OS X.

Jeremy1026 1y ago
The repo only goes back a week. I just think OP hasn't kept up with Apple's naming conventions.
Wowfunhappy 1y ago
Careful! High Sierra is actually macOS 10.13. By contrast, macOS 13 is Ventura, from 2022. (I personally would accept someone referring to High Sierra as “OS X” because it’s still version 10 of the Macintosh OS, even if Apple dropped that branding a few years earlier.)
rollcat 1y ago
As an occasional enjoyer of OS X 10.5 on PowerPC, I can recommend... iTunes. It is actually really decent, as is most of Jobs-era stuff. I don't have anything to play FLAC or Vorbis, but the machine has more urgent problems... <https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/ https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/>

jonhohle 1y ago

Not taking anything away from the project, which looks very cool, but it also probably doesn’t compile on OS X. Looks like minimum macOS version is 13.

HeckFeck 1y ago

IBM won the long game. They secretly acquired Apple, but you weren't meant to know that yet. Not even Tim Cook knows. Big Blue's lawyers will be writing politely to the author of this project, and teaming up with the gutted remains of Nullsoft to sue them for copyright infringement.

wheybags 1y ago

Of course they mean OS/X Warp, the Apple x IBM OS collaboration the world forgot.

linguae 1y ago
I know this was in jest, but had some of Apple’s and IBM’s 1990s plans came to fruition, we could’ve ended up with an operating system capable of running both OS/2 and Taligent (the original planned successor to the classic Mac OS) applications on PowerPC hardware (one of the few parts of the Apple/IBM collaboration that was realized): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS OS/X Warp sounds a lot cooler than Workplace OS.

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