The Riddle Of Lights Mac OS

It’s only just April, and already the rumours are spreading about what Apple is going to announce at its developers’ conference, WWDC, this summer. First on the list, perhaps because it is the simplest to understand, is that OS X may be renamed macOS.

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Mac OS AM73515MT8A USB 3.0 5MP Edge Series 700x - 900x with built-in axial lighting capable of switching between or mixing brightfield and darkfield illumination. The way it works is that in the house, you can take any two wires and attach them to a single battery. If you then go to the shed and touch those two wires to the lightbulb, it will light up. The lightbulb will only light up if you touch it to two wires that are attached to the same battery. The riddle lies in what’s behind that door, but you can’t get past it. So, you’ll turn your attention to the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and there you’ll search for the items that will get you into the Sphinx.

The claim is that this would make Apple’s operating system names more coherent: macOS for Macs, watchOS for Watches, tvOS for Apple TV, and iOS for i-devices including iPads and iPhones. That would certainly make sense, although the distinction of i-devices is a bit more complex, because of the existence of iMacs, but that is the result of inconsistency in product naming.

Apple has been able to gently re-engineer history by making subtle and progressive changes in the naming of its Mac operating systems. Those who only came to Macs after Mac OS X might think that the Mac operating system was always referred to as Mac OS, but that is of course quite untrue. The first releases were known in full as Macintosh System Software, and it was only in 1986 with the release of the first full version – just over two years after the first Macs shipped! – that this contracted to System Software 1.

When System Software 6.0 was released in 1988, it was normal to refer to it as System 6, and that approach worked through until what was renamed Mac OS 7.6 in 1997. This prepared us, through Mac OS 8 and 9, for the leap to what was intended to be pronounced Mac oh-ess ten in 2000 (as a public beta).

In changing the numeral from the Arabic 9 to Roman X, though, users became divided as to whether to call it Mac oh-ess ten or Mac oh-ess eks, however much the official line stressed the former. Then in 2012, the Mac was dropped altogether, and we have been writing and talking about OS X.

Viewed like that, the Macintosh operating system has had frequent name changes:

Macintosh System Software 1984-86
System Software 1986-88
System 1988-1997
Mac OS 1997-2000
Mac OS X 2000-2012
OS X 2012-16?

This makes macOS a gentle reminder of Mac OS and even the original Macintosh System Software.

But I think that this misses the point. Classic Mac OS had a lifetime of 16 years, until Mac OS X appeared in public beta in 2000. OS X is now approaching 16 years old too – this September if you count from the release of the Public Beta, or March 2017 from the first full release of Mac OS X 10.0. In the not too distant future, Apple is going to need to release major version 11 of its operating system for Macs, and naming it from OS X is a problem: would it become OS X 11.0 or OS XI 11.0?

Should Apple rename OS X this summer to macOS, this will not only mark a rationalisation in the naming of its operating system, but far more importantly starts the countdown to the first release of macOS 11. That will affect us much more than mere branding.

Below are the latest Free Mac LightScribe Software downloads of the:

LightScribe System Software (LSS)

and LightScribe Simple Labeler

LightScribe System Software LSS

Mac (OSX 10.3.9 or later)

Click the Download Now link below to download the latest LSS for Mac released by HP on July 2, 2012.

Version: 1.18.27.10

File Name: lightscribe_1.18.27.10.pkg.tar

File Size: 1.53 MB

Release Date: 14 March 2013

Requirements: LightScribe Enabled drive and media. LightScribe Labeling Software.

Installing on El Capitan or High Sierra

If you have difficultly installing the LightScribe System Software, please see this post:

LightScribe Simple Labeler

Mac (OSX 10.3.9)

LightScribe Simple Labeler is a simple labeling application. Nothing fancy here but for simple projects it gets the job done in three easy steps.

Put in a LightScribe disc label-side down.
Enter text in your favorite font and select a border from the free ones provided.
Preview your label and burn!

Click the Download Now link below to download the latest LightScribe Simple Labeler for Mac released by HP on May 17, 2009.

Supports:OSX 10.3.9

File Name: LightScribeApplications_1.18.5.1.pkg.tar

File Size: 12.20 MB

Release Date: May 17, 2009.