Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly!
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| APPLETALK | Anyone Planning Printer LAN Expects To AppleTalk Like Krazy! |
Angela Brett |
| EXPOSE | Extricates Xerox PARC's Overlapping Screen Elements |
Paul Marshall (an allusion to the MacOSX 10.3 feature) |
| FREEWARE HYPERCARD STACK | First Reason Everything's Easier With Apples: Reduced Effort Has Your Programmers Expecting Reduced Cost, And Readily Developing Something That All Consider 'Killer' |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming |
| HYPERTALK | Have You Programmed Especially Rapidly? Try Another Language, 'Kay? |
Angela Brett. (The 'Kay is short for Okay and also a reference to my C programming lecturer whose last name is Kay.) Computers:Programming |
| JAGUAR | Just A General Upgrade, Albeit Remarkable |
Angela Brett (unwittingly inspired by JAGUAR (7)), referring to the well-publicised 'code name' of Mac OS X 10.2 Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (2) | Justifiably Apple's Greatest - Users Are Raving |
Angela Brett (see JAGUAR) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (3) | Just Add Great Users, And Relax. |
Angela Brett (see JAGUAR) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (4) | Jobs Announced GPU Utilisation And Rendezvous |
Angela Brett (see JAGUAR) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (5) | Just About Godlike... Unbelievers Are Reconsidering |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (6) | Joins Aqua GUI, Unix, And Reality |
Angela Brett and Rob Rix (reality as in, not vapourware) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (7) | Just Another General Upgrade And Revamp |
Paul Marshall Names:Code Names:Apple |
| JAGUAR (8) | Jaguar: A Great User-Advanced Ride |
Acronymous Anonymous Names:Code Names:Apple |
| MAC OS | May Apple Cleanse Our Souls |
Angela Brett, thinking that it could be a prayer of converted gatanists. |
| MAC OS (3) | Majorly Addictive, Causes Overuse Syndrome. |
Steve Keate |
| MAC OS (5) | Many Assume Computer's Over-Simplified |
Angela Brett |
| MAC OS (6) | Makes Apple Computers Operate Smoothly |
Angela Brett |
| MAC OS X | Memory Available? Come On, Sample Xtravagance! |
Angela Brett, because Mac OS X requires quite a lot of RAM, but like most extravagances, is great to have if the RAM is available. |
| MAC OS X (2) | Must Attempt Cocoa - Oh, Such Xcitement! |
Angela Brett, remembering when she first got Mac OS X and was impatient to try COCOA PROGRAMMING. |
| NEXT | Now Entitled 'X' (Ten) |
Angela Brett (Mac OS X is a reincarnation of the NeXTStep operating system) |
| OPERATING SYSTEM TEN | Overhauled Procedures Ensure Reliability - Although This Isn't Necessary Generally. Simple Yet Stylish - This Extends Macintosh Theory.... Excitement & Novelty! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Mac OS X. |
| OS X | Our System's Xciting. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela installed Mac OS X. |
| PANTHER (3) | People All Need To Have Expose, Right? |
Angela Brett ('Expose' is one of the new features in Mac OS X 10.3, code-named 'Panther') Names:Code Names:Apple |
| PANTHER (4) | Please Add No Translations, Have Extra Room |
Angela Brett (most people will benefit from not installing all the languages in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, as they take up extra disk space and installation time.) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| PANTHER (5) | Panicked Angela Needs Technical Help, Everything's Ruined! |
Angela Brett, who eventually had to do a clean install of Panther after having problems with the normal installation. Names:Code Names:Apple |
| PUMA | Puma: Ultimate Mac Advancement |
Acronymous Anonymous (referring to the version of MAC OS X before JAGUAR) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| STACK (2) | Stunning Thing Atkinson Created - Kicking! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Programming |
| TIGER | This Is Greatly Enhanced. Really! |
Sean Lamb (Tiger is Apple's code name for the Mac OS X 10.4 update) Names:Code Names:Apple |
| VOCODER | Victoria, Or Cellos, Or Deranged? Extensive Range. |
Angela Brett (they are all Macintalk voices) |