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I've never seen os x written like that. I assumed it was a version of os/2 I had never heard of.

IBM won the long game. They secretly acquired Apple, but you weren't meant to know that yet. Not even Tim Cook knows. Big Blue's lawyers will be writing politely to the author of this project, and teaming up with the gutted remains of Nullsoft to sue them for copyright infringement.

Of course they mean OS/X Warp, the Apple x IBM OS collaboration the world forgot.

I know this was in jest, but had some of Apple’s and IBM’s 1990s plans came to fruition, we could’ve ended up with an operating system capable of running both OS/2 and Taligent (the original planned successor to the classic Mac OS) applications on PowerPC hardware (one of the few parts of the Apple/IBM collaboration that was realized):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS

OS/X Warp sounds a lot cooler than Workplace OS.

I wondered initially if this was a winamp port for older macs.

It requires macOS 13.0 (High Sierra, 2017) or later, which is several releases after it stopped being called OS X. 10.11 (El Capitan, 2015) was the last OS X.

The repo only goes back a week. I just think OP hasn't kept up with Apple's naming conventions.

Careful! High Sierra is actually macOS 10.13.

By contrast, macOS 13 is Ventura, from 2022.

(I personally would accept someone referring to High Sierra as “OS X” because it’s still version 10 of the Macintosh OS, even if Apple dropped that branding a few years earlier.)

As an occasional enjoyer of OS X 10.5 on PowerPC, I can recommend... iTunes. It is actually really decent, as is most of Jobs-era stuff.

I don't have anything to play FLAC or Vorbis, but the machine has more urgent problems... <https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/>

Not taking anything away from the project, which looks very cool, but it also probably doesn’t compile on OS X. Looks like minimum macOS version is 13.

Not only that but it hasn't been called OS/X for nearly a decade.

was it ever called OS/X?

It was called OS X and/or Mac OS X.

But now, not only is it not branded OS X, but it’s literally not at version 10 anymore. (The X was a roman numeral.)

It was a rhetorical question. Yes, I'm well aware it was OS X and that it was never referred to as OS/X

It was never called "OS/X"[1]. I've never even seen it called that colloquially until today.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

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