[pcd2k]

Media Access Controller, well probably not such a cute one but pretty close to what our beloved technology has become for the digital hub interface.
Anyway I found this story this morning about a networks company Airespace that is responsible for Mac Layer Splitting, here

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MAC_Layer.htm

the company airespace caught my attention here

http://www.redherring.com/EventsRhfFinalists.aspx

This Mac Layer splitting seems to make most ? computers via Airport Express or have I got this wrong ?

[Kilbey]

I hear Apples are good for graphics.

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by Kilbey:
I hear Apples are good for graphics.

...especially Games!

FPS ROXXORS!!!!1!!

[hayesk]

Neither new, nor a euphemism.

MAC has been an acronym for Media Access Controller pretty much since the invention of network cards. I first learned the term more than ten years ago.

When people write MAC when they mean Mac, I correct them to avoid confusion.

[DeathMan]

Originally posted by hayesk:

When people write MAC when they mean Mac, I correct them to avoid confusion.

And cause its wrong. You wouldn't write Microsoft WINDOWS. It also bother me when people write that they don't like IBM's.

Really, does it matter? No. But, dang. My Apple is great for graphics. Or at least it would be if I were willing to put out for a $600 video card.

[Gamoe]

Apple supposedly played with the acronym Mouse Activated Computer for MAC, but later decided against it. Provided that's how things turned out, I do not like it when people write "MAC" because it IS wrong, but it's simply ignorance on the part of that person, and can easily be corrected.

As for IBMs and so forth... I think the term has become outdated. What should be considered more IBM in the first place-- an Intel based PC without an IBM logo on it, or a Mac with an IBM PowerPC G5 CPU inside? To me, IBMs simply refer to IBM PCs. Intel based is a PC with an Intel CPU, Intel compatible is a PC with, well, a compatible CPU, such as AMD, and then there's Wintel and even Lintel.A Mac running Linux... Macux, Lintosh? :-P

[MacMan4000]

Why do people call computers with Windows "PCs"... PC stands for "Personal Computer", which should mean Macs are also PCs... right?

[Luca Rescigno]

Yep.

And using "Wintel" is also wrong, because a lot of people (myself included) are running Windows on an AMD processor.

Technically, I guess you have to refer to a "PC" as a "Windows PC." It's a shortening since "Windows" doesn't easily abbreviate into a noun the way "Macintosh" cuts down to "Mac."

[tooki]

Yes, Macs are PCs, strictly speaking. Generally, when people refer to "PC" to mean a Wintel machine, it's basically descended from the fact that the first DOS machine was the IBM PC (the model name was "PC"). That meaning stuck, even though many other personal computers existed then and exist now.

Regardless, MAC for media access control is a very, very old acronym, predating the Mac significantly. It's neither new, obscure, and no, not a euphemism, either.

tooki

[willed]

eu·phe·mism, n.
The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive

ac·ro·nym, n.
A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by pcd2k:
have I got this wrong ?

Yes, you got it all mixed up !

-t