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

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Subject: [Leica] MAC versus Mac
From: charcot at comcast.net (charcot)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:57:54 -0700
References: <4AF9D877.80002@sfr.fr> <20091110214051.GG3168@jbm.org>
 
Life must be tough for you - the world is imprecision and then there's 
the whole problem with entropy

ernie
Jeff Moore wrote:
> 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
>
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Replies: Reply from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] MAC versus Mac)
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