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Apple and O'Reilly

Feb 17, 2006 10:30AM PST

Is there some kind of connection between Apple and O'reilly publishing? Apple has it's big cat themed OS names and O'Reilly uses animals on the covers of their books. They both have something named Safari: Apple's web browser and O'Reilly's online book search. Just curious. Inspiration: Liger reference(which was funny) in BOL

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I don't think so
Feb 17, 2006 10:43AM PST

Just coincidence.
Nice observation, though.

(Not so)Quick comment on Apple's OS naming:
Apple has had codenames for pretty much everything in their past, it's just that now they are keeping the names with their OS's. The theming isn't anything new. I just did a quick look through Mactracker (on my nano) and most of Apple's OS codenames were based around music:
7.6-Harmony
8.0-Tempo
8.5-Allegro
9.0.4-Minuet
9.0-Sonata
9.1-Fortissimo

In my search, I found something quite humorous: the codename for OS 8.6:
"Veronica"

I think that's pretty funny.
-Ryan

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That's interesting...
Feb 17, 2006 12:18PM PST

I didn't know the codenames for pre OS X versions. It's almost like a Castlevania thing going on. Which seems even more interesting now that you mention Veronica. Cool. I knew they had codenames on their projects, put not what they were. Thanks.

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If you want to learn more
Feb 17, 2006 12:24PM PST

I mentioned MacTracker above, it's a very nifty little app to have if you care about Apple. It has information on anything Apple has made since the original Macintosh.
Here's the website:
http://www.mactracker.ca/
It's available for OS X, OS 8/9, Windows, and iPod (text only).

You don't want to know how much time I've spent just digging through everything just for fun.

-Ryan