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 Products have been regularly given code names before their introduction since the dawn of the commercial PC industry, and it is especially commonplace at Apple. When the Apple III was being designed by a comittee of people, team members needed something to call the project during development. The project was thus named 'Sarah' after the daughter of then chief engineer Wendell Sander (thus starting a long line of computers code named after daughters of Apple employees). From then on, Apple gave code names to virtually every product before it was released. Some code names were so influential that they remained as the product's official (or common) name. These include the Lisa, Macintosh, Pippin, and Newton. The whole practice of code names has become so commonplace for the general public, that Apple now assigns each projct an internal and external code name for each product it develops. For example, everybody knew Copland was code name for the ill-fated original Mac OS 8, but did you know what its internal code name was? Well, I decided to compile all the Apple and third-party code names I could find in books, magazines, and web sites and list them in this neat interface you see before you. There are a few names I'm not sure of (very little), but those are marked with a '?' at the end of them. If you have any code-names not mentioned below, or corrections to these, please e-mail me. Thanks.Slimey And Wombat Mac Os X
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Computers
Apple II/III - LisaApple III: Sarah (after the daughter of chief engineer Wendell Sander)
Apple IIe: Diana, LCA (Low Cost Apple), Super II
Apple IIc: E.T. (extraterrestrial), IIb (for book-sized), IIp (for portable), Pippin, VLC (Very Low Cost), Elf, Yoda, Teddy (short for Testing Every Day), Chels, Jason, Lollie, Sherry, Zelda (the children of team members)
Apple IIc+: Adam Ant (because the team was adamant about keeping the project alive), Pizza (because of its boxy shape), Propeller (because a team member had a propeller beanie in his office), Raisin (after testers won 2nd place for their California Raisins costumes in an Apple Halloween party)
Apple IIgs: Cortland, Phoenix (the project had been brought back to life after being killed), Rambo (when design team was fighting for final approval from the executive staff), Gumby (from an impersonation done at an Apple Halloween parade) Mark Twain (abandoned ROM04 prototype)
Apple IIx: Dove, Brooklyn, Golden Gate (referring to the ability to make it a bridge between the Apple II and Mac)
Apple Lisa: Lisa was the orginal code-name, supposedly named after Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa Nicole.
Macintosh
Macintosh 128k: Macintosh was the original code-name
Macintosh 512k: Fat Mac (four times 'fatter' memory-wise than the original Mac)
Macintosh Plus: Mr. T (maybe of 'The A Team' series, maybe Apple's chief scientist Larry Tesler)
Mac SE
Macintosh SE: Mac ±, PlusPlus, Aladdin, Freeport, Maui, Chablis, Midnight Run
Macintosh SE/30: Green Jade, Fafnir
Mac II
Mac II: Little Big Mac, Milwaukee (engineer Mike Dhuey's hometown), Ikki (Turkish for '2', also means 'bottoms up' in Japanese), Cabernet, Reno (in honor of the slots), Becks, Paris (homage to Jean-Louis Gassée), Uzi
Mac IIci: Aurora II, Cobra II, Pacific, Stingray
Mac IIcx: Aurora, Cobra, Atlantic (aborted 16-MHz configuration)
Mac IIfx: Stealth, Blackbird, F-16, F-19, Four Square, IIxi, Zone 5, Weed-Whacker
Mac IIsi: Oceanic, Ray Ban (as in 'the future's so bright, you gotta wear shades'; it shipped to developers with sunglasses), Erickson, Raffica, Raffika
Mac IIvx: Brazil
Mac IIx: Spock, Stratos
Mac Classic
Macintosh Classic: XO (abbreviation for Executive Officer in the armed forces)
Mac Classic II: Montana, Apollo
Mac Color Classic: Slice
Mac LC
Mac LC: Pinball (low-slung case design kinda looks like a pinball machine I guess), Elsie (say L-C), Prism
Mac LC II: Foster Farms
Mac LC III: Vail, Elsie III (say L-C-3)
Mac LC 475: Primus
Mac LC 550: Hook 33 (ran at 33 MHz)
Mac LC 575: Optimus
Mac LC 630: Show & Tell (probably because of its AV and speech capabilities), Crusader
Mac TV: Peter Pan, LD50
Quadra
Quadra 605: Aladdin, Primus
Quadra 610: Speedbump 610 (when Centris 610 was renamed Quadra 610, its speed was increased from 20 MHz to 25 MHz)
Quadra 630-638: Crusader, Show Biz, Show & Tell because of its multimedia capabilities)
Quadra 650: Speedbump 650 (when Centris 650 was renamed Quadra 650, its speed was increased from 25 MHz to 33 MHz)
Quadra 660av: Tempest
Quadra 700: Shadow (shadow of 900), Spike (going to spike the NeXTStation), IIce, Evo 200
Quadra 800: Fridge, Wombat 33
Quadra 840av: Quadra 1000, Cyclone
Quadra 900: Darwin, Eclipse (going to eclipse the NeXTStation), IIex, Premise 500
Quadra 950: Amazon, Zydeco
Quadra 605: Aladdin, ELB (extremely low budget), Primus
Performa
Performa 200: Lady Kenmore
Performa 47x: Aladdin
Performa 550: Hook
Performa 600: Brazil 32, Macintosh IIvm (this was the originally planned name, but consumer testing showed users thought 'vm' stood for 'virtual memory' a feature not available at the time, so the model was changed to Performa 600)
Performa 630: Show & Tell
Performa 5200: Bongo, Rebound, Transformer
Performa 6300-6360: Crusader, Elixir
Performa 6400: Instatower (first Performa to use mini-tower casing)
Mac Portable/PowerBook
Macintosh Portable: Laguna, Riveria, Malibu, Esprit, Guiness.Backlit configuration:Aruba, Love Shack, Mulligan
PowerBook 100: Asahi, Derringer, Rosebud, Classic
PowerBook 140: Tim LC (low cost), Tim Lite, Leary, Replacements
PowerBook 150: JeDI (the capital J, D, and I standing for 'just did it'.subtly referring to certain sexual abilities of the team)
PowerBook 145: Colt 45
PowerBook 145B: Pikes Peak
PowerBook 160: Brooks
PowerBook 165: Dart LC
PowerBook 165c: Monet
PowerBook 170: Road Warrior, Tim
PowerBook 180: Converse, Dartanian
PowerBook 180c: Hokusai (after the Japanese carver Kasushika Hokusai, famous for 'The Great Wave' woodblock)
PowerBook 190/190c: Omega
PowerBook 520/520c: Blackbird LC (low cost)
PowerBook 540: Blackbird, SR-71 (the SR-71 Blackbird shared the same slick black color), Spruce Goose (really heavy)
PowerBook 1400c: Epic
PowerBook 2400c: Comet, Nautilus, Mighty Cat (only for suped up configuration)
PowerBook 3400c: Hooper
PowerBook 3500: Kanga (possibly after the motherboard configuration of the same name?)
PowerBook 5300: M2 (the model of a mountain bike from Specialized Bicycles)
PowerBook G3: Wall Street
PowerBook G3/350-400: Main Street
PowerBook Duo
PB Duo 210/230: DBLite (the lightweight machine was named one night in a club called Das Boot), BOB W (Best Of Both Worlds, it's a lapop that's also a desktop when inserted in a DuoDock/II), Cinnamon (name given out to developers by Developer Technical Support)
PB Duo 250: Ansel (after the famous black & white photographer, Ansel Adams, also in a Think Different ad)
PB Duo 270c: Escher (after the famous black & white artist, M.C. Escher, one of my favorites)
PB Duo 280c: Yeager (after the first man to break the sound barrier, it was the first use the speedy 68040 processor)
PB 2300 Duo: AJ, Companion?
PowerMac
PCI Power Macs: PowerSurge
PowerMac 4400/7220: Tanzania
PowerMac LC 5200: Trailblazer, Bongo, Rebound, Transformer
PowerMac LC 5400: Excalibur, Chimera
PowerMac LC 5420/5500: Phoenix? (these models were charcoal black, like the charred mythical bird, Phoenix)
PowerMac 6100/60: Piltdown Man (it was the 'missing link' between the Macintosh and the higher-end PowerPC Macs)
PowerMac 7100/66: Carl Sagan (probably from the 'billions and billions' Apple would make from the machine), BHA (Butt Head Astronomer, referring to Carl Sagan's opposition to the use of his name, Sagan later sued Apple), LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps)
PowerMac 7200: Catalyst
PowerMac 7500: TNT (not the dynamite, but 'The New Tesseract'. The defunct Tesseract project was to create a high-end PPC Mac)
PowerMac 8100/80: Cold Fusion (complying with the hoax theme of the 6100)
PowerMac 8100/110: Flagship
PowerMac 8500/120: Nitro
PowerMac 9500/120: Tsunami
PowerMac 9500/150: Autobahn
PowerMac 9500/180-200: Nevada
PowerMac 8600 and 9600: Montana, Kansas (revamped Mach 5 versions)
PowerMac /w Exponential X704: Hyperbolic
PowerMac G3: Gossamer
PowerMac G3 Pro: PowerExpress
PowerMac G3 A-I-O: Artemis
Network/Workgroup Servers
Network Server 500: Shiner LE
Network Server 700: Shiner HE
Workgroup Server 60, 80: Blugu
Workgroup Server 95 project: Menagine
Workgroup Server 95: Chinook
Workgroup Server 6150/60, 8150/80, & 9150/80: Starbucks
Workgroup Server 7250/120 & 8550/132: Summit
Mac OS X Server-based Mac: MOSES
Newton MessagePad/eMate
eMate 300: Project K, Shay, Schoolbook
Newton MessagePad: Newton was the original code name
Newton MessagePad 100: Junior, Wedge
Newton MessagePad 110: Lindy
Newton MessagePad 120: Gelato (because it came in two 'flavors', 1MB or 2MB versions)
Newton MessagePad 130: Dante (maybe because of the similarities between MP130's luminescent screen technology and Dante's 'Inferno')
Newton MessagePad 2000: Q (maybe related to the Bond character with the gadgets, the omnipotent character in Star Trek series, or just the letter Q)
Newton OS 2.0 print-only handwriting recognizer: Rosetta (As in the Rosetta stone, which helped decipher hieroglyphs)
Newton OS 2.0: Dante (same as MP130, maybe because first shipped with that system)
PowerPC projects/processors
Apple's 1st RISC project: Jaguar (based on the Motorola 88000 RISC), Tesseract (renamed after PowerPC project began, later cancelled)
Apple's 68k-compatible RISC project: Cognac (Named after John Hennessy, a pioneer in RISC technology), Piltdown Man or PDM (the 'missing link' between 68k Macs and Tesseract's high-end PowerPC Mac)
PowerPC 603ev: Valiant
PowerPC 604e: Sirocco
PowerPC 604e (revamped): Mach 5
PowerPC 620: Trident
PowerPC 630: Boxer, Dino
PowerPC 740: Arthur
PowerPC 750: Typhoon
PowerPC Video and Multimedia Extensions (VMX): AltiVec, Desktop 98
PowerPC G4: Desktop 99, Max (300+ configuration), V'Ger (500+ MHz configuration, maybe something to do with the omniscient character in Star Trek: The Movie)
Miscellaneous/Other
iMac: C1, Columbus (back when it was an NC)
20th Anniversary Mac: Spartacus, Pomona, Smoke & Mirrors
Bandai @World: Pippin (another kind of apple)
CHRP Mac project: Moccasin, Opus & Bloom County

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System 6MultiFinder: 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
System Software
QuickTime
QuickTime 1.0: Warhol (an early version, the Warhol extension, had the icon of a Campbell's soup can)
QuickTime 1.5: Dali
QuickTime for Java: Biscotti
QuickTime Conferencing: Alexander, MovieTalk
QuickDraw
QuickDraw: didn't have a codename, but was coined by Jef Raskin in his 1967 PhD thesis on graphical user interfaces.
QuickDraw 32-bit: Jackson Pollock (named after the late American painter famous for using splashy colors in his work)
QuickDraw 3D: Escher (after M.C. Escher, famous for his unique prespectives of 2 and 3 dimentional art)
QuickDraw GX: Serrano
A/UX
A/UX 1.0: Pigs in Space
A/UX 1.11: Circle K (like the store; maybe it was frequently visited by the programmers?)
A/UX 2.0: Perestroika, Space Cadet
A/UX 3.0: Hulk Hogan
Networking/Internet
OT/PPP 1.0: Paris
LocalTalk: AppleBus, AppleTalk
Apple Remote Access: 976 (a certain popular phone prefix for adult entertaiment)
Workgroup Server 95 A/UX: Barracuda
Workgroup Server 95 AppleShare: Fugu
Apple Token Ring: Frodo
AppleShare 1.0: 007
AppleShare 3.0: Killer Rabbit (Apple engineers love Monty Python)
Network Software Installer 1.0: Lumahai
Network Software Installer 2.0: Balihai
Network Software Installer 3.0: Why-o-wai
PowerTalk APIs: Ventoux (a French mountain resort that hosts bicycle races)
Programming/Scripting
AppleScript 1.0: Cheeze Whiz, Gustav (the name of engineer Donn Denman's rottweiler, the team mascot), Toy Surprise
AppleScript 1.1: Guava Surprise, Pure Guava (you can see for yourself by pressing the Option key while clicking 'About AppleScript')
OpenDoc: Amber, Exemplar, Jedi (a contraction of 'Jed and I,' which refers to Jed Harris and Kurt Piersol, original OpenDoc architects)
HyperCard: WildCard (hence the creator code WILD)
HyperCard 2.0: Snow, Hot Water
HyperCard IIGS: Bullfinch
Dylan Prg. Language: Denali
Other System Software
Mac OS Extended Format (HFS+): Sequoia (the file system uses b-trees)
File Exchange: Renault
Apple II File Mangement Utility: Fishhead, Fishhead in Disguise (changed to this when executives objected to the name)
Data Access Manager: SnarfMan
Edition Manager: Diet Coke
Layout Manager: Glass Plus
Sound Manager: DJ, Party Line
PlainTalk Speech Recognition: Casper
TrueType: Bass (as in Saturday Night Live's Bass-O-Matic), Royal
Apple Font Pack: Big Sur
PowerMac Upgrade enabler: Rocinante (Don Quixote's horse)
Apple CD Setup: Monarch
Apple Drive Setup: Dragonfly
Mac II 32-bit ROM: Squeaky (for 'squeaky clean', earlier ROMs were 'dirty' because they didn't properly use all 32 bits)
Printers
ImageWriter / StyleWriter

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System 6MultiFinder: 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
System Software
QuickTime
QuickTime 1.0: Warhol (an early version, the Warhol extension, had the icon of a Campbell's soup can)
QuickTime 1.5: Dali
QuickTime for Java: Biscotti
QuickTime Conferencing: Alexander, MovieTalk
QuickDraw
QuickDraw: didn't have a codename, but was coined by Jef Raskin in his 1967 PhD thesis on graphical user interfaces.
QuickDraw 32-bit: Jackson Pollock (named after the late American painter famous for using splashy colors in his work)
QuickDraw 3D: Escher (after M.C. Escher, famous for his unique prespectives of 2 and 3 dimentional art)
QuickDraw GX: Serrano
A/UX
A/UX 1.0: Pigs in Space
A/UX 1.11: Circle K (like the store; maybe it was frequently visited by the programmers?)
A/UX 2.0: Perestroika, Space Cadet
A/UX 3.0: Hulk Hogan
Networking/Internet
OT/PPP 1.0: Paris
LocalTalk: AppleBus, AppleTalk
Apple Remote Access: 976 (a certain popular phone prefix for adult entertaiment)
Workgroup Server 95 A/UX: Barracuda
Workgroup Server 95 AppleShare: Fugu
Apple Token Ring: Frodo
AppleShare 1.0: 007
AppleShare 3.0: Killer Rabbit (Apple engineers love Monty Python)
Network Software Installer 1.0: Lumahai
Network Software Installer 2.0: Balihai
Network Software Installer 3.0: Why-o-wai
PowerTalk APIs: Ventoux (a French mountain resort that hosts bicycle races)
Programming/Scripting
AppleScript 1.0: Cheeze Whiz, Gustav (the name of engineer Donn Denman's rottweiler, the team mascot), Toy Surprise
AppleScript 1.1: Guava Surprise, Pure Guava (you can see for yourself by pressing the Option key while clicking 'About AppleScript')
OpenDoc: Amber, Exemplar, Jedi (a contraction of 'Jed and I,' which refers to Jed Harris and Kurt Piersol, original OpenDoc architects)
HyperCard: WildCard (hence the creator code WILD)
HyperCard 2.0: Snow, Hot Water
HyperCard IIGS: Bullfinch
Dylan Prg. Language: Denali
Other System Software
Mac OS Extended Format (HFS+): Sequoia (the file system uses b-trees)
File Exchange: Renault
Apple II File Mangement Utility: Fishhead, Fishhead in Disguise (changed to this when executives objected to the name)
Data Access Manager: SnarfMan
Edition Manager: Diet Coke
Layout Manager: Glass Plus
Sound Manager: DJ, Party Line
PlainTalk Speech Recognition: Casper
TrueType: Bass (as in Saturday Night Live's Bass-O-Matic), Royal
Apple Font Pack: Big Sur
PowerMac Upgrade enabler: Rocinante (Don Quixote's horse)
Apple CD Setup: Monarch
Apple Drive Setup: Dragonfly
Mac II 32-bit ROM: Squeaky (for 'squeaky clean', earlier ROMs were 'dirty' because they didn't properly use all 32 bits)
Printers
ImageWriter / StyleWriterImageWriter II: Express
StyleWriter: Franklin, Mighty Mouse, Salsa, Tabasco
StyleWriter II: Speedracer
Color StyleWriter: Logo
Color StyleWriter 2200: Calamari
Color StyleWriter 2400: Aurora
Color StyleWriter Pro: Fantasia, Logo
Color StyleWriter 4100: Cabo
Color StyleWriter 4500: Baja
LaserWriter
LaserWriter: LightWriter
LaserWriter LS: Nike
LaserWriter NT: Twist
LaserWriter SC: Shout
LaserWriter IIf: Kirin Dry (a Japanese beer)
LaserWriter IIg: Kirin (another beer)
LaserWriter IINT: Leia
LaserWriter IINTX: Darth Vader
LaserWriter IISC: Solo
LaserWriter Pro 600: Tollhouse
LaserWriter Select 300: Ninja
LaserWriter Select 360: Viper
LaserWriter 12/640 PS: Mongoose
Personal LaserWriter 300: Comet
Personal LaserWriter 320: Photon
Personal LaserWriter LS: Nike
Personal LaserWriter NT: Twist
Personal LaserWriter SC: Shout
Personal LaserWriter: Capriccio
Hardware
Apple MonitorsMacintosh 12' RGB Display: Mai Tai
Apple Color Plus 14' Display: Dragon
Apple AudioVision 14' Display: Telecaster
Macintosh 16' Color Display: Goldfish
Apple Studio Display: Manta
AppleVision 1710 Display: Hammerhead
AppleVision 1710AV Display: Sousa
Macintosh 21' Color Display: Vesuvio (maybe related to the volcano that buried Pompeii in A.D. 79)
Macintosh 21' Monochrome Display: Fred, Kong (its colossal size is reminiscent of King Kong)
Keyboards/Mice
Apple Standard Keyboard: Eastwood
Apple Keyboard II: Elmer, Dvrfer
Apple Adjustable Keyboard: Norsi
Apple Extended Keyboard: Dörfer (Ed Colby's nickname), Saratoga (named after the aircraft carrier because of size; prototypes had small model carriers decorated on them)
Apple Extended Keyboard II: Elmer, Nimitz (another aircraft carrier)
Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II: Topogigo (Europe & Latin America's equivalent to Mickey Mouse)
Scanners / Digital Cameras
OneScanner: Half-Dome, Ping-Pong
OneScanner 600/27: Rio
Onescanner 1200/30: New Orleans
OneScanner for Windows: WinDome
QuickTake 100: Venus
Apple Drives
Apple 871 Floppy Drive: Twiggy (used in the Lisa 1)
Apple Hard Disk 400SC: A Ts'ah (Japanese for eagle), Eagle
Apple PowerCD: Tulip
AppleCD 600: Hollywood
AppleCD 800: Stingray
Motherboard / Case Designs
iMac: Columbus (I guess a similar motherboard will be used for the Apple Media Player)
PowerMac G3: Gossamer
PowerMac G3 Pro: Gossamer II, Yosemite
PowerMac G3 Pro case: El Capitan (as in the ultimate climber's challenge in Yosemite National Park, it's a translucent blue tint)
PowerMac 5400/6400: Alchemy, Gazelle (enhanced model)
PowerMac 8500/9500: Tsunami
PowerMac 8600/9600: Kansas
PowerMac 8600/9600 case: K2 (as in the 2nd highest mountain on earth)
Motorola StarMax systems: Tanzania
PowerBook / PB Duo / Newton Harware
PowerBook 100 Conner Peripherals HD: Elwood (as in the Blues brother, 40MB configuration), Jake (The other Blues Brother, 20MB configuration)
PowerBook 100 internal modem: O'Shanter & Bess
PB Duo Dock II: Atlantis
PB Duo MiniDock: Spaniard
PB Duo Floppy Adapter: Blackwatch
PB Trackpad: Midas (after the mythological king that turned everything he touched into gold)
Newton MessagePad 110 Charging Station: Crib
Internet/Networking
AppleTalk Internet Router: North (for Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North who routed Iranian arms sale to the Nicaraguan Contras)
ISDN NuBus Card: CarCraft
Apple Freedom Network: Frogger
PCI - PDS - Nubus - Other
iMac I/O controller: Paddington
PowerMac G3 Extreme PCI slots: Oakridge
PowerMac G3 Extreme Cache controller: Brick & Trigger
PowerBook 3400 PCI bus: PowerStar
PowerPC Upgrade Card: STP (after the automobile fuel additive)
PowerPC Upgrade for PB 5x0: Malcom
Power Mac AV Card: Planaria
Quicktime 3D Accelerator Card: White Magic
PC Compatibility Card /w Intel 486: Gaucho
PC Compatibility Card /w Pentium: Grand Illusion
Apple PC Drive Card: Emerald City
PCI MPEG-1 Video Card: San Francisco
IIe LC PDS card: Double Exposure
Quadra 610 DOS PDS card: Houdini (maybe because it took Houdini to make DOS-compatible Macs), Royal Scam (well, isn't it?)
IIgs Video Overlay Card: Gumby, Pokey
Mac II Hi-Res Monochrome Card: Bob the Card
Mac II 21' Monochrome Card: Barney
AppleColor High-Resolution RGB Monitor Video Card: Toby
Mac IIci Cache Card: American Express, Optima (tacky joke, both are 'cash cards')
LocalTalk serial card: Livonia
IIe LC PDS card: Double Exposure
IIgs Video Overlay Card: Gumby, Pokey
Other Apple Hardware
AppleDesign Powered Speakers: Badger
AppleDesign Powered Speakers II: Baby Badger
1MB Apple Inline Cache: Sam-I-Am
AISS: Making Waves
Removable Storage
Iomega JAZ drive: Viper
SyQuest EZ135: RoadRunner
Other Computers
IBM PC: Chess, Acorn
IBM PC AT: Bigtop, Salmon
NeXT Computer: Big Mac, 3M (because it had a million pixel display, a million bytes of memory, and ran a million instructions per second)
Power Computing PowerWave 604 series: TidalWave (maybe because of the similar 9500's code name, Tsunami)
Power Computing's CHRP system: Project Grail (as in the Holy Grail of Mac computing)
Other Monitors
Radius Color LCD: Ptolemy
RasterOps ColorBoard264: Cheapskate
SuperMac PDQ: Snap
SuperMac Thunder/24: Pop (from Rice Krispies, Milk never saw the light of day)
SuperMac Thunder/8: Crackle (also from Rice Krispies)
Radius flat-panel pivoting color LCD: Ptolemy
Commercial Software
AppleWebObjects 3.0: Shiva
At Ease: Tiny Toons
MacDraw: Mackelangelo
MacDraw Pro 1.0: Chameleon, Maui
MacWrite: Macauthor
MacWrite Pro 1.0: Old Pro
MacWrite Pro 1.5: Cue Ball
MacWrite Pro 1.5v3: Shakespeare
MacsBug: a contraction of Motorola Advanced Computer Systems debugger
GUS (Apple IIGS emulator): GUS is reportedly the original code name
eWorld: Aladdin
Claris
FileMaker Pro: Ninja, Samurai, Banzai
Claris MacProject: Road Runner
ClarisDraw: Expressway
ClarisImpact: Wall Street (Claris was confident that it would make lots of money and appeal to business users)
ClarisWorks: Terminator (because it was designed to terminate Microsoft Works sales)
Dantz
Dantz DiskFit Direct: Paris
Dantz Retrospect 2.0: Warpaint
Dantz Retrospect 3.0: Peary
Microsoft
MS Excel: Odyssey
MS Mail 4.0: Capone
MS Windows 95: Cairo, Chicago
MS Windows 95 Update: Nashville
MS Windows 98: Memphis
Other Companies
Netscape Communicator 4: Galileo
MacX: Malcom (probably because of the 'X' relation)
Acrobat: Houdini
Lotus MarketPlace: Surfer
dBASE IV 2.0: X-15 (after the experimental jet with which Chuck Yaeger set world speed records.)
FullWrite: Ozone
MacroModel: Zeppo (Mac version), Harpo (PC version), Gummo (Silicon Graphics version)
Quattro Pro 1.0: Buddha (because they were going to assume the Lotus position)
Quattro Pro 2.0: Splash (because one million units sold would pay for the new campus swimming pool)
Sun's Mac emulator: Cat-in-the-Hat

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ContentsThe initial revision of this software is a single tasking system which delegates most tasks to an emulator running the Motorola 68000 series (68K) version of the operating system. The second major revision supports multitasking, multiprocessing, and message passing, and would be more properly called a microkernel. Unlike the 68K-derived Mac OS kernel running within it, the PowerPC kernel exists in a protected memory space and executes device drivers in user mode.
The nanokernel is very different from the Copland OS microkernel, although they were created in succession with similar goals.[1][2][3]
System 7.1.2 – Mac OS 8.5.1The original nanokernel, and the tightly integrated Mac 68k emulator, were written by emulation consultant Gary Davidian.[4] Its main purpose is to allow the existing Motorola 68K version of the operating system to run on new hardware. As such, the normal state of the system is to be running 68K code. The operating system does little until activated by an interrupt, which is quickly mapped to its 68K equivalent within the virtual machine.
Other tasks may include switching back to PowerPC mode, if necessary, upon completion of the interrupt handler, and mapping the Macintosh virtual memory system to the PowerPC hardware. However, as the software is little documented, these might instead be handled by the emulator running in user mode.
This nanokernel is stored on the Mac OS ROM chip integrated into Old World ROM computers, or inside the Mac OS ROM file on disk on the New World ROM computers, rather than being installed in the familiar sense.
Interim developmentProgress after 1994 demanded additional functionality. A forward-looking architecture was introduced for PCI card drivers in anticipation of the Copland microkernel called NuKernel, which supports memory protection. The Open Transport networking architecture introduced standardized PowerPC synchronization primitives. The DayStar Digital Genesis MP Macintosh clone requires kernel extensions to support multiprocessing. This evolution would later affect the overhaul to the nanokernel in Mac OS 8.6.
Mac OS 8.6 and laterMac OS 8.6's nanokernel was rewritten by René A. Vega to add Multiprocessing Services 2.0 support. PowerMacInfo, distributed in the Multiprocessing SDK, is an application that displays statistics about the nanokernel's operation.[5]
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The Mac 68k emulator is a software emulator built into all versions of the classic Mac OS for PowerPC. This emulator enabled running applications and system code that were originally written for the 680x0-based Macintosh models. With a few exceptions, notably Connectix's RAM Doubler, the emulator ran all software with no noticeable impact other than lower performance relative to the same program when compiled for PowerPC.
System 7, codenamed 'Big Bang', and also known as Mac OS 7, is a graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers and is part of the classic Mac OS series of operating systems. It was introduced on May 13, 1991, by Apple Computer, Inc. It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating system until it was succeeded by Mac OS 8 in 1997. Features added with the System 7 release included virtual memory, personal file sharing, QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D, and an improved user interface.
Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer, Inc. Best cleaner macbook pro. on July 26, 1997. It includes the largest overhaul of the classic Mac OS experience since the release of System 7, approximately six years before. It emphasizes color more than prior versions. Released over a series of updates, Mac OS 8 represents an incremental integration of many of the technologies which had been developed from 1988 to 1996 for Apple's overly ambitious OS named Copland. Mac OS 8 helped modernize the Mac OS while Apple developed its next-generation operating system, Mac OS X.
In computing, Quark is an operating system kernel used in MorphOS. It is a microkernel designed to run totally virtualized computers, called 'boxes'. Currently only one 'Box' is available, the ABox, that lets users run existing AmigaOS software compiled for MC680x0 and PowerPC processors.
Copland is an operating system developed by Apple for Macintosh computers between 1994 and 1996 but never commercially released. It was intended to be released as System 8, and later, Mac OS 8. Free on slots. Planned as a modern successor to the aging System 7, Copland introduced protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and several new underlying operating system features, while retaining compatibility with existing Mac applications. Copland's tentatively planned successor, codenamed Gershwin, was intended to add more advanced features such as application-level multithreading.
MkLinux is an open-source software computer operating system begun by the Open Software Foundation Research Institute and Apple Computer in February 1996, to port Linux to the PowerPC platform, and Macintosh computers. The name refers to the Linux kernel being adapted to run as a server hosted on the Mach microkernel, version 3.0.
Star Trek is the code name that was given to a secret prototype project, running a port of Mac OS 7 and its applications on Intel-compatible x86 personal computers. The project, starting in February 1992, was conceived in collaboration between Apple Computer, who provided the majority of engineers, and Novell, who at the time was one of the leaders of cross-platform file-servers. The plan was that Novell would market the resulting OS as a challenge to Microsoft Windows, but the project was discontinued in 1993 and never released, although components were reused in other projects. The project was named after the Star Trek science fiction franchise with the slogan 'To boldly go where no Mac has gone before'.
XNU is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which is the basis for the Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS OSes. XNU is an abbreviation of X is Not Unix.
The Macintosh Toolbox implements many of the high-level features of the Classic Mac OS, including a set of application programming interfaces for software development on the platform. The Toolbox consists of a number of 'managers,' software components such as QuickDraw, responsible for drawing onscreen graphics, and the Menu Manager, which maintain data structures describing the menu bar. As the original Macintosh was designed without virtual memory or memory protection, it was important to classify code according to when it should be loaded into memory or kept on disk, and how it should be accessed. The Toolbox consists of subroutines essential enough to be permanently kept in memory and accessible by a two-byte machine instruction; however it excludes core 'kernel' functionality such as memory management and the file system. Note that the Toolbox does not draw the menu onscreen: menus were designed to have a customizable appearance, so the drawing code was stored in a resource, which could be on a disk.
Old World ROM computers are the Macintosh (Mac) models that use a Macintosh Toolbox read-only memory (ROM) chip, usually in a socket. All Macs prior to the iMac, the iBook, the Blue and White Power Mac G3 and the Bronze Keyboard (Lombard) PowerBook G3 use Old World ROM, while said models, as well as all subsequent models until the introduction of the Intel-based EFI Models, are New World ROM machines. In particular, the Beige Power Mac G3 and all other beige and platinum-colored Power Macs are Old World ROM machines. In common use, the 'Old World' designation usually applies to the early generations of PCI-based 'beige' Power Macs, but not the older Motorola 68000-based Macs; however, the Toolbox runs the same way on all three types of machines.
vMac was an open source emulator for Mac OS on Windows, DOS, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Linux, Unix, and other platforms. Although vMac has been abandoned, Mini vMac, an improved spinoff of vMac, is actively developed for. vMac and Mini vMac emulate a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5. vMac and Mini vMac support CPU emulation from Motorola 68000 to 68040, display output, sound, floppy disk insert, HFV image files, and more. Some vMac ports include extra features such as CD-ROM support, basic serial port (SCC) support, Gemulator ROM board support, and various performance improvements. Although the website is still in operation, most vMac development slowed to a halt in 1999, and no official releases have been made since. Many of the developer e-mail addresses listed on the website are not currently working.
Basilisk II is an emulator which emulates Apple Macintosh computers based on the Motorola 68000 series. The software is cross-platform and can be used on a variety of operating systems.
A Macintosh clone is a computer running the Mac OS operating system that was not produced by Apple Inc. The earliest Mac clones were based on emulators and reverse-engineered Macintosh ROMs. During Apple's short lived Mac OS 7 licensing program authorized Mac clone makers were able to either purchase 100% compatible motherboards or build their own hardware using licensed Mac reference designs.
Rosetta is a dynamic binary translator developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, an application compatibility layer between different instruction set architectures. It gives developers and consumers a transition period in which to update their application software to run on newer hardware, by 'translating' it to run on the different architecture. The name 'Rosetta' is a reference to the Rosetta Stone, the artifact which enabled translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Amiga computer can be used to emulate several other computer platforms, including legacy platforms such as the Commodore 64, and its contemporary rivals such as the IBM PC and the Macintosh.
The family of Macintosh operating systems developed by Apple Inc. includes the graphical user interface-based operating systems it has designed for use with its Macintosh series of personal computers since 1984, as well as the related system software it once created for compatible third-party systems.
The classic Mac OS is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the graphical user interface concept. It was included with every Macintosh that was sold during the era in which it was developed, and many updates to the system software were done in conjunction with the introduction of new Macintosh systems.
References↑ Inside Macintosh: PowerPC System Software. Apple Technical Library. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1994. ISBN978-0-201-40727-3. OCLC29636881.
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↑ 'The Road to Power Macintosh'. Macworld. Vol.11. May 1994.
↑ René A. Vega (October 25, 2001). 'PowerMacInfo info'. Newsgroup:comp.sys.mac.programmer.help. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
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