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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

This, but unironically used as a marketing trick:

There was no v1 of Oracle Database, as co-founder Larry Ellison "knew no one would want to buy version 1"

That's why the first Oracle database is v2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

this is what happened to windows 9, too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

No, the problem with Windows 9 is that a lot of things compared the version with 9* as a catch all for windows 95 and 98, so they were worried with backwards compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What’s wrong with 9 though ? Didn’t iPhone also skip 9 ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

After the X/XS/XR phones they went to the 11. If the XS was 10 then the X would be 9. It is a bit weird for them to do 8 and 9 at the same time, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

but the X is a Roman numeral hence why Apple demands that OSX be pronounced as "OS ten"

(I have not heard anyone who is not an Apple employee call it that but it's the official stance, you can look it up)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dunno. But that’s a hardware model, ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's a fun fact

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Slackware went from version 4 to 7 for a similar reason. But IIRC its reason was RedHat.