Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] MAC versus Mac
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:05:13 -0500
 
> I honestly don't intend to be mean by this, just informative.  I tend to 
> crave
> precision, and certain things bug me.
> 
> At any rate, sometimes I see people referring to Macintosh computers 
> writing
> "MAC".  The conventional short form of Macintosh is "Mac" (just the first
> letter capitalized).  When all letters are capitalized, it implies that 
> one is
> using an acronym where each letter stands for a separate word -- such as 
> MAC
> for Media Access Control, or PC for Personal Computer.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  -Jeff


In caps its short for big MAC.
Which is junk food.


Mark William Rabiner
In reply to: Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] MAC versus Mac)