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Mac
OS Software Codenames
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System 6
- MultiFinder: Juggler, Oggler,
Twitcher (variant of Switcher?)
- 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 7.5.2: Marconi (named after Guglielmo
Marconi, 19th century Italian engineer)
- System 7.5.3: Unity (it united all the patches
and special software of all models into one update)
- System 7.5.3 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 8.7 or Mac OS 9: Sonata
Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Server: Rhapsody
- Mac OS X Server DR2: Titan
- Atlas - developer release of Mac OS X
Server
- Hera - developer release of Mac OS X Server
base OS
- Mac OS X Server 1.0: 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 - BlueBox (Mac Emulation Layer for
legacy Apps)
- Mac OS X - Mac API's: Carbon (all Mac life
will be based on it) - updated subset / superset of
MacAPI's
- Mac OS X - Boxless (transparent) BlueBox -
Ivory
Other OS
Projects
- Mac OS for Intel: Star Trek (probably because
the Mac OS is boldly going where it has never gone
before)
- Follow on to Mac OS for Intel: TNG (for Star
Trek the Next Generation)
- Apple/IBM object-oriented OS: Defiant,
Pink -- released by IBM as CommonPoint
- first System 8: Copland (named after Aaron
Copland, musician), Maxwell (internal code
name)
- First System 9: Gershwin (named after George
Gershwin, musician)
- Copland Interface Project: MUSE (for Maxwell
USer Experience)
- CHRP compliant Mac OS 8: Orient Express
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