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System
Software Codenames
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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 Conferencing: Alexander, MovieTalk
- QuickTime for Java: Biscotti
QuickDraw
- QuickDraw: didn't have a codename, but was coined by
Jef Raskin in his 1967 PhD thesis on graphics and
interface.
- 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
- Something in the Unix group: Tylenol
Networking/Internet
- OT/PPP 1.0: Paris
- LocalTalk: AppleBus, AppleTalk
- AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA): 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: Holy Hand Grenate (of antioch) -- the
File Sharing Extensions creator is 'hhgg'. Some claim
this is for "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
- FileShare - 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")
- Bedrock: Apple and Symantec's never shipped cross
platform development framework. The Framework became the
foundation of the OpenDoc Framework (ODF) for
Cross-platform OpenDoc development.
- OpenDoc: Amber, Exemplar, Jedi
- HyperCard: WildCard (hence the creator code
WILD)
- HyperCard 2.0: Snow, Hot Water
- HyperCard IIGS: Bullfinch
- Dylan Programming Language: Denali
Other System
Software
- Mac OS Extended Format (HFS+): Sequoia (the file
system uses b-trees)
- Apple File Exchange: Renault
- Apple II File Mangement Utility: Fishhead, Fishhead
in Disguise (changed to this when executives objected to
the name)
- Data Access Manager (DAM): SnarfMan
- Edition Manager: Diet Coke
- Layout Manager: Glass Plus
- Sound Manager: DJ, Party Line
- PlainTalk Speech Recognition: Casper
- Text Retrieval: Reporter (for runner of some later
search tools?)
- 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)
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