Planet-X?

[Vanamonde]

This is why we can't have nice things.  Please stick to the subject of the thread, try not to be rude to each other, and avoid accusing each other of stuff needlessly. 

[Nibb31]

4 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Is there any logic why after Windows 8 they released Windows X ?..

I thought the name was Windows 10.

[lude]

The romans didn't even know about Pluto.

[pxi]

On 11/4/2016 at 5:02 PM, kerbiloid said:

Is there any logic why after Windows 8 they released Windows X ?..

From the same company that also had Win ME, Win 2000 and Win XP as version names?  I think it's fair to say that expecting a logical progression of version numbers may be too much to hope for.  Strictly speaking Win 10 was NT 6.4 up to a certain point in its development.

Kerbart has the explanation that seems most plausible to me, although I suspect marketing had a hand in it somewhere too.

 

On topic:  The Romans only knew about the planets out to Saturn because they are visible to the naked eye.

Edited April 16, 2016 by pxi

[Kryten]

The X in 'Planet X' is for unknown, same as for the X in X-ray; it's not a roman numeral. There's no way it was even meant to have a double meaning, as the term predates the discovery of Pluto.

[Nuke]

its actually planet IX now.

because dune reference.

Edited April 17, 2016 by Nuke

[lude]

Perhaps the first idea of Planet X is like 2500 years old and based on an idea where all planets in our solar system orbit around the sun which in turn orbits around a central universal fire.

It's the counter-earth (i'll just assume here that any planet X can be any unknown)