I want to know the answer to the following question:
What did the branding of the Mac OS 8 effectively end?
All the background I'm provided with is that "When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 following the company's purchase of NeXT, he ordered that the OS that had been previewed as version 7.7 be branded Mac OS 8 (in place of the never-to-appear Copland OS).". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no