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> Jobs personally heads the MacIntosh development team MacIntosh :)

ajross 7y ago
That (or McIntosh) is the correct spelling for the fruit breed (though not the clan name from which it descends). I don't know at what point Apple settled on its non-standard spelling for the product, but it might well have been after this article was written.
- leejoramo 7y ago
  Steve Jobs could not get trademark on McIntosh but was able to negotiate for Macintosh https://www.soundandvision.com/content/flashback-1984-apple-unveils-macintosh https://www.soundandvision.com/content/flashback-1984-apple-...
  - js2 7y ago
    I don't see a reference to it at that link but it's because audio equipment manufacturer McIntosh Labs had the trademark: https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/ https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/ Edited to add from wikipedia: “Apple Inc. employee Jef Raskin named the Macintosh line of personal computers after the McIntosh. He deliberately misspelled the name to avoid conflict with the hi-fi equipment manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory. Apple's attempt in 1982 to trademark the name Macintosh was nevertheless denied due to the phonetic similarity between Apple's product and the name of the hi-fi manufacturer. Apple licensed the rights to the name in 1983, and bought the trademark in 1986.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)#Cultural_significance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)#Cultural_sign...
    - core-questions 7y ago
      I just lost ten minutes to drooling over the absurdly over-the-top McIntosh Reference System. Now I need to win the lottery.
      - brokenmachine 7y ago
        How much does it cost? Unsurprisingly the price doesn't seem to be listed on their site.
        js2 7y ago
        It was ~ $200k in 2006. https://www.cnet.com/pictures/mcintosh-reference-system-the-worlds-best-stereo/7/ https://www.cnet.com/pictures/mcintosh-reference-system-the-... https://www.audioholics.com/trade-shows/2006-consumer-electronics-show-ces/mcintosh-xrt2k-loudspeaker-system https://www.audioholics.com/trade-shows/2006-consumer-electr...
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msla 7y ago
> MacIntosh :) They'll probably program it in "C", and then in the 1990s move on to JAVA, with some software in PERL.
- fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
  I think the Lisa was programmed in Pascal
  - msla 7y ago
    Thank you for proving the point that people simply cannot see the difference between "C" and C. Or JAVA and Java. Or PERL and Perl. One wonders how many people are, right this very moment, writing code in C# because they fail to see a difference between C# and C++...
  - msla 7y ago
    I guess most people really can't distinguish between "C" and C.
    - fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
      Perhaps you should tell us the difference
- derefr 7y ago
  Was C ever really named "C" with the quotes? Was it supposed to be a reference—were "C-style strings" a key innovation of C over BCPL or something?
  - msla 7y ago
    > Was C ever really named "C" with the quotes? No, it wasn't, but it gets called that often enough for me to have made a joke about it.
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Apple platforms were mostly developed in Object Pascal and Assembly, until they added support for C and C++, with MPW and Metrowerks compilers. Then it was mostly in C++. Apple platforms never were big C fans.

That (or McIntosh) is the correct spelling for the fruit breed (though not the clan name from which it descends). I don't know at what point Apple settled on its non-standard spelling for the product, but it might well have been after this article was written.

leejoramo 7y ago
Steve Jobs could not get trademark on McIntosh but was able to negotiate for Macintosh https://www.soundandvision.com/content/flashback-1984-apple-unveils-macintosh https://www.soundandvision.com/content/flashback-1984-apple-...
- js2 7y ago
  I don't see a reference to it at that link but it's because audio equipment manufacturer McIntosh Labs had the trademark: https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/ https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/ Edited to add from wikipedia: “Apple Inc. employee Jef Raskin named the Macintosh line of personal computers after the McIntosh. He deliberately misspelled the name to avoid conflict with the hi-fi equipment manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory. Apple's attempt in 1982 to trademark the name Macintosh was nevertheless denied due to the phonetic similarity between Apple's product and the name of the hi-fi manufacturer. Apple licensed the rights to the name in 1983, and bought the trademark in 1986.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)#Cultural_significance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)#Cultural_sign...
  - core-questions 7y ago
    I just lost ten minutes to drooling over the absurdly over-the-top McIntosh Reference System. Now I need to win the lottery.
    - brokenmachine 7y ago
      How much does it cost? Unsurprisingly the price doesn't seem to be listed on their site.
      - js2 7y ago
        It was ~ $200k in 2006. https://www.cnet.com/pictures/mcintosh-reference-system-the-worlds-best-stereo/7/ https://www.cnet.com/pictures/mcintosh-reference-system-the-... https://www.audioholics.com/trade-shows/2006-consumer-electronics-show-ces/mcintosh-xrt2k-loudspeaker-system https://www.audioholics.com/trade-shows/2006-consumer-electr...
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msla 7y ago

> MacIntosh :) They'll probably program it in "C", and then in the 1990s move on to JAVA, with some software in PERL.

fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
I think the Lisa was programmed in Pascal
- msla 7y ago
  Thank you for proving the point that people simply cannot see the difference between "C" and C. Or JAVA and Java. Or PERL and Perl. One wonders how many people are, right this very moment, writing code in C# because they fail to see a difference between C# and C++...
- msla 7y ago
  I guess most people really can't distinguish between "C" and C.
  - fiddlerwoaroof 7y ago
    Perhaps you should tell us the difference
derefr 7y ago
Was C ever really named "C" with the quotes? Was it supposed to be a reference—were "C-style strings" a key innovation of C over BCPL or something?
- msla 7y ago
  > Was C ever really named "C" with the quotes? No, it wasn't, but it gets called that often enough for me to have made a joke about it.
pjmlp 7y ago
Apple platforms were mostly developed in Object Pascal and Assembly, until they added support for C and C++, with MPW and Metrowerks compilers. Then it was mostly in C++. Apple platforms never were big C fans.