The original Mac software had an emulator to run when OS X came out, but NeXTStep was a different system entirely and not just an iteration on the same OS.
Uhm no? The X is a Roman numeral and makes sense as it succeeded classic OS 9. OSX is based on NeXTStep though an Objective-C still carries its prefix with it (all Types are prefixed with NS for example NSString)
The X in MacOS X is not a Roman numeral.
It’s the X from NeXT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
The original Mac software had an emulator to run when OS X came out, but NeXTStep was a different system entirely and not just an iteration on the same OS.
Cute comic though.
Uhm no? The X is a Roman numeral and makes sense as it succeeded classic OS 9. OSX is based on NeXTStep though an Objective-C still carries its prefix with it (all Types are prefixed with NS for example NSString)
Then why was it referred to as Mac os X 10, Mac os X 10.1, Mac os X 10.5 etc?
Dept of redundancy Dept I guess?
There are many more examples.
But it wasn’t referred to Mac os X 10.1 etc only as Mac OS 10.1 or their respective codename (cheetah, tiger, …)