Mac Oh-Ess-(Ex|Ten) (was: Mac JPEG viewer advice)

Jonathan Stowe jns at gellyfish.com
Sun Sep 30 09:21:55 BST 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 00:54 -0700, Ovid wrote:
> --- Andy Wardley <abw at wardley.org> wrote:
> 
> > That should be enough to convince you that "Oh-Ess-Ex" is the right
> > one
> > to use. :-)  Also, it rolls off the tongue easier, IMHO.
> <snip>
> > Sorry, I can't offer any advice on Oh-Ess-Nine (other than: upgrade).
> > That was before my time.
> 
> Funny.  I always thought that was called "Oh-Ess-Eye-Ex".
> 
> Hmm, revisionist history is tasty.
> 

I always thought there was a need for something to disamiguate the Apple
impostor from the real OS-9

/J\
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