On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:41:48PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:04:42PM -0800, Elliott F. Cable wrote:
Mac OS X? Other way around - went from system 7, 8, OS 9 - then 10.1 (10), 10.2 (11), 10.3 (12), 10.4 (13) and soon, 10.5 (14) - I tend to find that copying something apple did leads to success, ESPECIALLY when they changed something - usually, when they admit they made a mistake (very rare) and fix it in a given way (much less rare) then they usually fix it 100%, and put lots of thought into their decision. I see the fact that they ended up using a X.YY system means we should stick to the same, but maybe that's just me.
There's some truth in that -- but you might want to think about all the implications of their decisions. The reason for the change in version numbering for MacOS seems to have been made for reasons other than how pretty the version numbers look.
After all, the version numbers are largely targeted at technically oriented people who just want a sense of continuity to the versioning.
Ah... someone who likes my addition to [[Version number]]. :-)
The reason there's a 10.x anything is that MacOS X followed MacOS 9. They're dragging out the 10.x because of the association of 10 with X.
Indeed. And it's worth noting, too, that Elliot is apparently missing the fact that 7, 8, and 9 all had sub-version numbers, as well. So, no, 10.2 != 11.
In fact, they may well end up going to 10.x.x if this gets dragged out long enough to make it necessary to avoid a 10.247 version number. I think it's a lot more likely they'll go the Emacs/Java route, though, and drop the 10. part of the version numbering, if they don't toss out their current numbering system entirely and do another significant paradigm shift in the way they present their OS to the world instead.
Well, one can *hope* the engineers will win out over the marketers; look what happened to Motorola when that stopped being the case. Or HP.
Thank ghod it hasn't happened to state Departments of Transportation. Would you want to drive on Interstates that were designed for looks?
Cheers, -- jra