APPLEVISION Monitor

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon May 6 14:18:24 2002

We all have our pet peeves, don't we. However, my comments rely on and refer
to industry nomenclature developed by the guys who made the connectors. I
don't know where the standards for whether one should call it a MAC, a mac, a
mAc, or whatever are printed. I know the sub-d connector designations are
printed in one of those Amphenol connector catalogs I've got piled somewhere,
though.

more below...

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Woyciesjes" <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor


> > From: Chris
> >
> > >... 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).
>
It's spelled WITH the 'a' in it at the grocery store ... they are a mite tart,
but make decent pie ...
>
> > 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.

I don't believe I've said anything for or against it. I don't know much about
it because, back in the pre-Windows days, it was the only machine with a GUI
that I saw every day, and, since it didn't have a command line interface, I
didn't like it, because I wasn't used to a GUI. If I can set one of these up
so that my S.O's sister can use it, without anyone there to advise her, I'll
throw in the towel and admit that it's easier to use, for a rank beginner,
than Windows. However, so far, there's no such danger. Names like "chooser"
for something that doesn't choose, and "finder" for something that doesn't
find, is pretty confusing.

Of course, a common problem with Windows is that it doesn't close ...

> > 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
> >
> ...and now some flashbacks to the DB15 - DE15 naming convention
> thread...Eeek!
>
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