Does 'save as' in 10.8 overwrite the original or result in loss of the original file?

Is it true that the restored using "Save As" in Mountain Lion results in loss of the original file?  I expect "Save As" to result in saving a separate file under whatever name is assigned to it while leaving the original alone. There was a post elsewhere online today to the effect that unless one or another preference is globally set for the Mac using Save As will just result in renaming the file; the original will be lost unless it can be retrieved from Time Machine or elsewhere. What is the truth here?  I understand that third-party apps (say, Photoshop) maintain normal "Save" and "Save As" behavior but that using Apple apps or others that employ the OS's saving scheme manifest this behavior. If this is true and not remediable then I'll probably leave the Mac platform after 24 years once my 2006 Mac Pro is left too far behind. This one's a deal breaker for me though the thought of using Windows 8 leaves me cold too.

As someone online noted:
"In Apple's brave new world, there is no "Save" or "Save As". Everything you do is recorded, and you can always go back to previous versions of your work. There is no real destruction. It's just not working the way we want it to work.
Apple shifted the paradigm out from under our feet. I too find myself lost. In software support, this is known as a "problem occurring in the first half of the 'user interface'". For over 50 years, computer users have had to explicitly save their work. You didn't save it, it was lost. We even got into the habit of saving our work every so often in case the computer crashed, and hours of work was lost. The original Mac's big contribution: It reminded us to save our work when we quit the program. Now, there is no more save, and we can't wrap our minds around it."
From what I understand BOTH FILES will be saved with the changes - but what "Save As" should do is allow the copy to be saved with the changes and the original to stand alone. The whole business is a mess and nothing I want to deal with. I don't want the ORIGINAL file autosaved with my changes nor do I want to have to go fishing to figure out which version is the one I started with at that session.

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