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MacOs (i.e., Os9 and before) had special meaning for colons, too. I wonder what would happen for git on those platforms.

Edit: Apparently colon is _still_ a special character on Mac! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13298434/colon-appears-as...

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And this is how we enter the new era. It goes MacOs, OS X then macOS. Unfortunately the 10.xx has been kept to mess with what is (capitalisation aside?) a nice tidy up. Maybe dropping the names part, Sierra, would have made it better. Relying on readers to spot your capitalisation isn't ideal at all, and what if you start a sentence with macOS, how do you capitalise it?

I fixed my MacOs in my post.

(For me it went MacOs, OS X, then Windows 10).

To be super pedantic, it went

1. "Macintosh System Software"

2. "Mac OS" (starting with 7.5/7.6)

3. "Mac OS X"

4. "OS X" (starting with Mountain Lion)

5. "macOS" (starting with Sierra)

Isn't the colon the directory separator character in HFS, akin to the unix '/' and windows '\'?

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