site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 04 Dec 2009, at 03:53, Greg Parker wrote: Jonas _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:19 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Thing is, it *used* to be called MacOS, without any spaces, back in 'them pre-NeXT days, i.e. MacOS 9 and prior, all the way down to MacOS 7.6. Even prior to that it used to be called something completely different, namely "System Software", all the way down to its first 1.0 iteration, if I'm not mistaken. Once Stevie came back on board and we were dealing with the NeXT based Mac OS that we all now know and love, Apple did a complete Nineteen Eighty-Four on us and renamed the entire thing "Mac OS", with the space, rewriting every name and reference everywhere all the way back to 7.6 days, to make us believe nothing else had ever happened, very Ministry of Truth of you, thank you very much! ;) The "Mac OS" name, as introduced with Mac OS 7.6, had a space in it. This was well before the NeXT deal. http://www.altfuels.org/lilolmcs/graphics/atmnm8_1.gif http://www.apple-collection.com/PhoSysteme/S1.jpg http://www.apple-collection.com/PhoSysteme/Sys.Mc.7.6.B.jpg That's really odd, I was also 100% convinced that it was called "MacOS" rather than "Mac OS" between 7.6 and 9.2.2... I wonder why. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com