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Article #18460McIntosh <=> MacIntosh
From: Steve Hix
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1987 21:08
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1987 21:08
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The MacIntosh spelling cam in use when the fainthearts at Apple's legal department did a trademark search while gearing up for the Mac release and found that the audio electronic company name MacIntosh was already there...they decided that McIntosh (the fruit) would be too close for comfort and took the easy way out: they licensed the name from MacIntosh. As for the //gs, "granny smith" was a much older project, only peripherally related to the current Apple// line. Literally. seh
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