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Impressions from a first-time Mac user
Mac is not an acronym, it's short for Macintosh.
MAC stands for Mandatory Access Control or Media Access Control (as in ethernet hwaddr).
Toutouxc
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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.
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i had it as Mac's but changed it because I knew something offended people honestly didn't know which
eyelidlessness
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I wish I had a MACRO to ignore this completely unhelpful correction
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MAC stands for Mandatory Access Control or Media Access Control (as in ethernet hwaddr).