Question: What did the branding of the Mac OS 8 effectively end?

Is 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). a good answer to this question?

Available choices:
[a]. yes.
[b]. no.
[b].