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sneak
4y ago
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Mac is not an acronym, it's short for Macintosh.
MAC stands for Mandatory Access Control or Media Access Control (as in ethernet hwaddr).
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Toutouxc
4y ago
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I'd swear that writing Macs as MACs (or MAC's) is a shibboleth of people who don't like Macs.
bliteben
4y ago
i had it as Mac's but changed it because I knew something offended people honestly didn't know which
eyelidlessness
4y ago
I wish I had a MACRO to ignore this completely unhelpful correction
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