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		LeoPanthera on May 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to... I'd love to know where the idea came from that Mac OS X has a slash in it somewhere. I've seen Mac/OSX, and I've seen Mac OS/X. I reckon it's probably because of OS/2. People sometimes call the Playstation 2 the "PS/2" as well, which is all kinds of wrong. No slashes in OS X!

seryoiupfurds on May 16, 2014 [–]

I think it was being used the same way as people write PC/Windows, or perhaps Unix/Linux.

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