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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 155240" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>From <a href="http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/codenames.html" target="_blank">Apple Museum</a> </p><p></p><p>System 6</p><p>MultiFinder: Juggler, Oggler, Twitcher</p><p>System 6.04: Antares</p><p>System 6.05: Big Deal</p><p>System 6.06: SixPack</p><p>System 6.08: Terminator (it terminated the System 6 era)</p><p></p><p>System 7</p><p>Finder 7.0: Furnishings 2000 (a defunct San Francisco Bay Area furniture store)</p><p>System 7: Blue (System 7 programmers were called "blue meanies"), Big Bang, M80 (a powerful firecracker), Pleiades</p><p>System 7 Tune-Up: 7-Up</p><p>System 7.01: Road Warrior (used in first PowerBooks), Beta Cheese</p><p>System 7.1: Cube-E, I Tripoli (both because the project was to conform to IEEE standards)</p><p>System 7.1 Pro: Jirocho</p><p>System 7.5: Mozart, Capone (Apple hoped that like the gangster, "Capone" would rule over "Chicago", the code name for Windows 95)</p><p>System 7.5 Update 1.0: Danook (from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)</p><p>System 7.5 Update 2.0: Thag (also from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)</p><p>System 7.52: Marconi (named after Guglielmo Marconi, 19th century Italian engineer)</p><p>System 7.53: Unity (it united all the patches and special software of all models into one update)</p><p>System 7.53 Revision 1: Buster (CEO Gil Amelio's high school nickname, used often in later Mac OS versions)</p><p>System 7.53 Revision 2: Son of Buster</p><p>Mac OS 7.6: Harmony</p><p>Mac OS 7.61: Ides of Buster</p><p></p><p></p><p>Mac OS 8</p><p>Mac OS 8: Tempo</p><p>Mac OS 8.1: Bride of Buster</p><p>Mac OS 8.5: Allegro, Scimitar (beta version)</p><p>Mac OS 8.6: Veronica</p><p>Mac OS in '99: Sonata</p><p></p><p>Mac OS X</p><p>Mac OS X Server: Rhapsody</p><p>Mac OS X Server DR2: Titan</p><p>Mac OS X Server CR1: Mac OS Enterprise ("Enterprise" is also the name of Apple's NeXT division)</p><p>Mac OS X: Cyan (a different "shade" of the Blue Box), Siam (like Siamese twins, Mac OS and Rhapsody will be joined)</p><p>Mac OS X API's: Carbon (all Mac life will be based on it)</p><p></p><p>Other OS Projects</p><p>Mac OS for Intel: Star Trek (probably because the Mac OS is boldly going where it has never gone before)</p><p>defunct Apple/IBM object-oriented OS: Defiant, Pink</p><p>defunct System 8: Copland (named after Aaron Copland, musician), Maxwell (internal code name)</p><p>defunct System 9: Gershwin (named after George Gershwin, musician)</p><p>Copland Interface Project: MUSE (for Maxwell USer Experience)</p><p>CHRP compliant Mac OS 8: Orient Express</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 155240, member: 6762"] From [URL=http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/codenames.html]Apple Museum[/URL] System 6 MultiFinder: Juggler, Oggler, Twitcher System 6.04: Antares System 6.05: Big Deal System 6.06: SixPack System 6.08: Terminator (it terminated the System 6 era) System 7 Finder 7.0: Furnishings 2000 (a defunct San Francisco Bay Area furniture store) System 7: Blue (System 7 programmers were called "blue meanies"), Big Bang, M80 (a powerful firecracker), Pleiades System 7 Tune-Up: 7-Up System 7.01: Road Warrior (used in first PowerBooks), Beta Cheese System 7.1: Cube-E, I Tripoli (both because the project was to conform to IEEE standards) System 7.1 Pro: Jirocho System 7.5: Mozart, Capone (Apple hoped that like the gangster, "Capone" would rule over "Chicago", the code name for Windows 95) System 7.5 Update 1.0: Danook (from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon) System 7.5 Update 2.0: Thag (also from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon) System 7.52: Marconi (named after Guglielmo Marconi, 19th century Italian engineer) System 7.53: Unity (it united all the patches and special software of all models into one update) System 7.53 Revision 1: Buster (CEO Gil Amelio's high school nickname, used often in later Mac OS versions) System 7.53 Revision 2: Son of Buster Mac OS 7.6: Harmony Mac OS 7.61: Ides of Buster Mac OS 8 Mac OS 8: Tempo Mac OS 8.1: Bride of Buster Mac OS 8.5: Allegro, Scimitar (beta version) Mac OS 8.6: Veronica Mac OS in '99: Sonata Mac OS X Mac OS X Server: Rhapsody Mac OS X Server DR2: Titan Mac OS X Server CR1: Mac OS Enterprise ("Enterprise" is also the name of Apple's NeXT division) Mac OS X: Cyan (a different "shade" of the Blue Box), Siam (like Siamese twins, Mac OS and Rhapsody will be joined) Mac OS X API's: Carbon (all Mac life will be based on it) Other OS Projects Mac OS for Intel: Star Trek (probably because the Mac OS is boldly going where it has never gone before) defunct Apple/IBM object-oriented OS: Defiant, Pink defunct System 8: Copland (named after Aaron Copland, musician), Maxwell (internal code name) defunct System 9: Gershwin (named after George Gershwin, musician) Copland Interface Project: MUSE (for Maxwell USer Experience) CHRP compliant Mac OS 8: Orient Express [/QUOTE]
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