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From: Chris <mythtech_at_mac.com>
Date: Mon May 6 12:04:06 2002

>... and just exactly where does one find a precise reference to this
>convention?

I can't quote a source, but I can say that traditionally, in English, all
caps refers to an anacronym. And since MAC has something it stands for,
each and every time you refer to a Macintosh as "MAC" you are in fact
refering to something other than the Macintosh computer.

And typing it as MacIntosh is just simply wrong. Look at any literature
by Apple, you will never see it with a capitol I. I think that is a throw
off from people that are typing it via the name of the fruit, which is
ALSO wrong, since the name of the fruit is McIntosh (no a).

Its just a pet peeve... I'm not going to really care if you continue to
type it MAC... but doing so shows a gross ignorance of the platform, and
really undermines any and all arguments you may have to say for or
against it. You can't really take someone seriously in discusssions of a
system if they can't refer to it correctly, as it just shows that they
have spent so little time dealing with the system, that they clearly
can't base their statements on anything educated. It doesn't matter if it
is the Mac, or if it is something else.

-chris

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