OS 7, OS 8 and OS 9 didn't use Roman numerals. If people (including myself, many people i know and the last Apple store 'genius' I talked to) want to pronounce it as "/ɛks/" it doesn't matter or make us wrong. Stephan Leeds ( talk) 15:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC) I always assumed that the X came from X-window, so I always pronounced it as "/ɪks/" and even believed that those guys that pronounced it as "ten" were wrong. Every single one of the people who say "Mac OS /ɛks/" would never say "It's /ɛks/ o'clock." Since it is apparently so difficult for some people, though, I suggest it 'is' important to include both the pronunciation in the usual place and an explanation of why that pronunciation is correct somewhere in the article.
There was Mac OS /eɪt/, then Mac OS /nʌɪn/, then Mac OS /tɛn/. I've never once heard anyone say /ˈtʌɪt(ə)l ɪks/ or, when reading the time from a clock with Roman numerals, say "It's /ɛks/ o'clock." This is just not hard. I have never for a moment begun to understand how this pronunciation thing is difficult or unclear for people. I do think it needs to include the information that the 'X' is in fact a Roman numeral 10.
Thou wouldst still speak like unto this ungainly manner! - Paul123 -Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.3.58 ( talk) 19:50, 15 April 2008 (UTC) I don't think the article needs to tell people how to pronounce it. Where would the English language (or any language, for that matter, but this is the English section of Wikipedia) if Webster said, this is how it should be said, instead of reporting how people actually used the words. Both ways should be mentioned (then you can say that Apple prefers it this way). It is irrelevant what Apple says it should be, what should be reported in a reference work is what people call it. But for a reference work (which I think Wikipedia is supposed to be) the usage is what is important, not the marketing crap. If marketing people (of which I am one) would get off their high horses and realize that when you name something ambiguously, people will say it different ways, then we would all have an easier time of it. Guy Harris ( talk) 04:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC) So should we say Jaguar or Jag-u-ar? Companies are constantly trying to force people to pronounce things a certain way. The people Geo8rge talks to are not pronouncing it the way Apple says you're supposed to pronounce it, so the Wikipedia shouldn't say it's pronounced the way they pronounce it. Not a big point but it is an encyclopedia Geo8rge ( talk) 00:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC) I see your point, but I humbly suggest that you refer these people to the encyclopedia article, rather than expect the article to accommodate these people! MFNickster ( talk) 02:06, 29 December 2007 (UTC) And the article will now, right where it says it's pronounced "Mac O-S ten", refer you to a page on an Apple Web site where it says you're supposed to pronounce it "Mac O-S ten". My point is that people I talk to pronounce the X as the letter x, as in "ow es ex". Wikipedia does get things right sometimes, you know. -) -/- Warren 01:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Seems like the last word is closer to 'ten' than X.
I downloaded some other Mac games, but they wanted OS 8.0 and I don't know where to download that from. I was intrigued with The Underdogs site, which is an 'abandonware' site (see another thrad), and I saw this 3inthree game, but it was for a Mac - the site said 'you can get a Mac emulator here', so I did.ĭownloaded some tool enabling mucking around with virtual disks (HSV?)Ĭurrently I'm stuck, because I don't know enough American stuff, but it works.Ĭertainly weird running a Mac on my AMD 1.2Ghz machine.