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

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Subject: [Leica] MAC versus Mac
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:34 -0800
References: <4AF9D877.80002@sfr.fr> <20091110214051.GG3168@jbm.org> <4AF9E1E2.7030400@comcast.net>

On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:57 PM, charcot wrote:

> Life must be tough for you - the world is imprecision and then there's the 
> whole problem with entropy
> 
> ernie


wow, that coming from a neurologist...

you think things are bad, you should have gone into psychiatry...


:-)


Steve


> 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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In reply to: Message from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe Amard) ([Leica] OT: MAC question - Mail / Netscape / Thunderbird)
Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] MAC versus Mac)
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