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Are you sure? The story I've always heard is that the Blue (Mac OS) vs. Pink (Taligent) team split originated in a planning meeting around 1988, and the "Blue M
by duskwuff 6y ago
Are you sure? The story I've always heard is that the Blue (Mac OS) vs. Pink (Taligent) team split originated in a planning meeting around 1988, and the "Blue Meanies" were core members of the Blue team.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoMaybe. I just remember people referring to them as "Blue Meanies" because of the characters in The Yellow Submarine[0]. They were the ones that hated music and creativity, and folks didn't like HIG telling them they couldn't have fuschia scrollbars in their new, five-thousand-dollar color Macs. But that said, I think you are correct[1]. The last MacHack I attended (maybe 1989?), Dean Yu hadn't yet been hired by Apple, and was infamous for writing system-crashing inits (Kill Dean's Inits!). I think he wrote the "Energizer Bunny" init that could have the EB running around every computer on the network. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Yellow_Submarine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Yellow_Submarine... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Apple_Computer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Apple_Computer)