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I often wonder where the all-caps 'MAC' originated.
by bluedino 2y ago
I often wonder where the all-caps 'MAC' originated.
- tjakab 2y agoMy suspicion from early in my career is it was people that came from IT who just assumed that 'MAC' was an acronym for something, like pretty much everything else they dealt with, as opposed to the shortening of the proper noun 'Macintosh.'
- p1mrx 2y agoConfusion with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_access_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_access_control ?