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Apple
code Name & more
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- Apple
II/III - Lisa
- Apple
III: Sarah
(after the daughter of chief engineer Wendell Sander)
- Apple
IIe: Diana, LCA
(Low Cost Apple), Super II
- Apple
IIc: E.T.
(extraterrestrial), IIb (for book-sized), IIp (for
portable), Pippin, VLC (Very Low Cost), Elf, Yoda, Teddy
(short for Testing Every Day), Chels, Jason, Lollie,
Sherry, Zelda (the children of team members)
- Apple
IIc+: Adam Ant
(because the team was adamant about keeping the project
alive), Pizza (because of its boxy shape), Propeller
(because a team member had a propeller beanie in his
office), Raisin (after testers won 2nd place for their
California Raisins costumes in an Apple Halloween party)
- Apple
IIgs: Cortland,
Phoenix (the project had been brought back to life after
being killed), Rambo (when design team was fighting for
final approval from the executive staff), Gumby (from an
impersonation done at an Apple Halloween parade) Mark
Twain (abandoned ROM04 prototype)
- Apple IIx: Dove,
Brooklyn, Golden Gate (referring to the ability to make
it a bridge between the Apple II and Mac)
- Apple
Lisa: Lisa was
the orginal code-name, supposedly named after Steve
Jobs' daughter Lisa Nicole.
Macintosh
- Macintosh
128k: Macintosh
was the original code-name
- Macintosh
512k: Fat Mac
(four times "fatter" memory-wise than the
original Mac)
- Macintosh
Plus: Mr. T
(maybe of "The A Team" series, maybe Apple's
chief scientist Larry Tesler)
Mac SE
- Macintosh
SE: Mac ±,
PlusPlus, Aladdin, Freeport, Maui, Chablis, Midnight Run
- Macintosh
SE/30: Green
Jade, Fafnir
Mac II
- Mac II:
Little Big Mac, Milwaukee (engineer Mike Dhuey's
hometown), Ikki (Turkish for "2", also means
"bottoms up" in Japanese), Cabernet, Reno (in
honor of the slots), Becks, Paris (homage to Jean-Louis
Gassée), Uzi
- Mac
IIci: Aurora II,
Cobra II, Pacific, Stingray
- Mac
IIcx: Aurora,
Cobra, Atlantic (aborted 16-MHz configuration)
- Mac
IIfx: Stealth,
Blackbird, F-16, F-19, Four Square, IIxi, Zone 5,
Weed-Whacker
- Mac
IIsi: Oceanic,
Ray Ban (as in "the future's so bright, you gotta
wear shades"; it shipped to developers with
sunglasses), Erickson, Raffica, Raffika
- Mac
IIvx: Brazil
- Mac
IIx: Spock,
Stratos
Mac Classic
- Macintosh
Classic: XO
(abbreviation for Executive Officer in the armed forces)
- Mac
Classic II:
Montana, Apollo
- Mac
Color Classic:
Slice
Mac LC
- Mac LC:
Pinball (low-slung case design kinda looks like a
pinball machine I guess), Elsie (say L-C), Prism
- Mac LC
II: Foster Farms
- Mac
LC III: Vail, Elsie III (say
L-C-3)
- Mac LC
475: Primus
- Mac LC
550: Hook 33
(ran at 33 MHz)
- Mac LC
575: Optimus
- Mac LC
630: Show &
Tell (probably because of its AV and speech
capabilities), Crusader
- Mac TV:
Peter Pan, LD50
Quadra
- Quadra
605: Aladdin,
Primus
- Quadra
610: Speedbump
610 (when Centris 610 was renamed Quadra 610, its speed
was increased from 20 MHz to 25 MHz)
- Quadra
630-638:
Crusader, Show Biz, Show & Tell because of its
multimedia capabilities)
- Quadra
650: Speedbump
650 (when Centris 650 was renamed Quadra 650, its speed
was increased from 25 MHz to 33 MHz)
- Quadra
660av: Tempest
- Quadra
700: Shadow
(shadow of 900), Spike (going to spike the NeXTStation),
IIce, Evo 200
- Quadra
800: Fridge,
Wombat 33
- Quadra
840av: Quadra
1000, Cyclone
- Quadra
900: Darwin,
Eclipse (going to eclipse the NeXTStation), IIex,
Premise 500
- Quadra
950: Amazon,
Zydeco
- Quadra
605: Aladdin,
ELB (extremely low budget), Primus
Performa
- Performa
200: Lady
Kenmore
- Performa
47x: Aladdin
- Performa
550: Hook
- Performa
600: Brazil 32,
Macintosh IIvm (this was the originally planned name,
but consumer testing showed users thought "vm"
stood for "virtual memory" a feature not
available at the time, so the model was changed to
Performa 600)
- Performa
630: Show &
Tell
- Performa
5200: Bongo,
Rebound, Transformer
- Performa
6300-6360:
Crusader, Elixir
- Performa
6400: Instatower
(first Performa to use mini-tower casing)
Mac Portable/PowerBook
- Macintosh
Portable:
Laguna, Riveria, Malibu, Esprit, Guiness. Backlit
configuration: Aruba, Love Shack, Mulligan
- PowerBook
100: Asahi,
Derringer, Rosebud, Classic
- PowerBook
140: Tim LC (low
cost), Tim Lite, Leary, Replacements
- PowerBook
150: JeDI (the
capital J, D, and I standing for "just did
it"...subtly referring to certain sexual abilities
of the team)
- PowerBook
145: Colt 45
- PowerBook
145B: Pikes Peak
- PowerBook
160: Brooks
- PowerBook
165: Dart LC
- PowerBook
165c: Monet
- PowerBook
170: Road
Warrior, Tim
- PowerBook
180: Converse,
Dartanian
- PowerBook
180c: Hokusai
(after the Japanese carver Kasushika Hokusai, famous for
"The Great Wave" woodblock)
- PowerBook
190/190c: Omega
- PowerBook
520/520c:
Blackbird LC (low cost)
- PowerBook
540:
Blackbird, SR-71 (the SR-71 Blackbird shared the
same slick black color), Spruce Goose (really heavy)
- PowerBook
1400c: Epic
- PowerBook
2400c: Comet,
Nautilus, Mighty Cat (only for suped up configuration)
- PowerBook
3400c: Hooper
- PowerBook
3500: Kanga
(possibly after the motherboard configuration of the
same name?)
- PowerBook
5300: M2 (the
model of a mountain bike from Specialized Bicycles)
- PowerBook
G3: Wall Street
(2nd generation), Lombard (3rd generation)
PowerBook Duo
- PB Duo
210/230: DBLite
(the lightweight machine was named one night in a club
called Das Boot), BOB W (Best Of Both Worlds, it's a
lapop that's also a desktop when inserted in a
DuoDock/II), Cinnamon (name given out to developers by
Developer Technical Support)
- PB
Duo 250: Ansel (after the famous black &
white photographer, Ansel Adams, also in a Think
Different ad)
- PB Duo
270c: Escher
(after the famous black & white artist, M.C. Escher,
one of my favorites)
- PB Duo
280c: Yeager
(after the first man to break the sound barrier, it was
the first use the speedy 68040 processor)
- PB
2300 Duo: AJ,
Companion?
PowerMac
- PCI
Power Macs: PowerSurge
- PowerMac
4400/7220:
Tanzania
- PowerMac
LC 5200:
Trailblazer, Bongo, Rebound, Transformer
- PowerMac
LC 5400:
Excalibur, Chimera
- PowerMac
LC 5420/5500:
Phoenix? (these models were charcoal black, like the
charred mythical bird, Phoenix)
- PowerMac
6100/60:
Piltdown Man (it was the "missing link"
between the Macintosh and the higher-end PowerPC Macs)
- PowerMac
7100/66: Carl
Sagan (probably from the "billions and
billions" Apple would make from the machine), BHA
(Butt Head Astronomer, referring to Carl Sagan's
opposition to the use of his name, Sagan later sued
Apple), LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps)
- PowerMac
7200: Catalyst
- PowerMac
7500: TNT (not
the dynamite, but "The New Tesseract". The
defunct Tesseract project was to create a high-end
RISC-based Mac)
- PowerMac
8100/80: Cold
Fusion (complying with the hoax theme of the 6100)
- PowerMac
8100/110:
Flagship
- PowerMac
8500/120: Nitro
- PowerMac
9500/120:
Tsunami
- PowerMac
9500/150:
Autobahn
- PowerMac
9500/180-200:
Nevada
- PowerMac
8600 and 9600:
Montana, Kansas (revamped Mach 5 versions)
- PowerMac
w/ Exponential X704:
Hyperbolic
- PowerMac
G3: Gossamer,
PowerExpress, Yosemite (the blue G3)
- PowerMac
G3 A-I-O:
Artemis
Network/Workgroup Servers
- Network
Server 500:
Shiner LE
- Network
Server 700: Shiner HE
- Workgroup
Server 60, 80:
Blugu
- Workgroup
Server 95 project: Menagine
- Workgroup
Server 95: Chinook
- Workgroup
Server 6150/60, 8150/80, & 9150/80: Starbucks
- Workgroup
Server 7250/120 & 8550/132: Summit
- PowerMac
G3 Server: MOSES
Newton MessagePad/eMate
- eMate
300: Project K,
Shay, Schoolbook
- Newton
MessagePad:
Newton was the original code name
- Newton
MessagePad 100:
Junior, Wedge
- Newton
MessagePad 110:
Lindy
- Newton
MessagePad 120:
Gelato (because it came in two "flavors", 1MB
or 2MB versions)
- Newton
MessagePad 130:
Dante (maybe because of the similarities between MP130's
luminescent screen technology and Dante's
"Inferno")
- Newton
MessagePad 2000:
Q (maybe related to the Bond character with the gadgets,
the omnipotent character in Star Trek series, or just
the letter Q)
- Newton
OS 2.0 print-only handwriting recognizer:
Rosetta (As in the Rosetta stone, which helped decipher
hieroglyphs)
- Newton
OS 2.0: Dante
(same as MP130, maybe because first shipped with that
system)
PowerPC projects/processors
- Apple's
1st RISC project: Jaguar
(based on the Motorola 88000 RISC), Tesseract (renamed
after PowerPC project began, later cancelled)
- Apple's
68k-compatible RISC project: Cognac
(Named after John Hennessy, a pioneer in RISC
technology), Piltdown Man or PDM (the "missing
link" between 68k Macs and Tesseract's high-end
PowerPC Mac)
- PowerPC
603ev: Valiant
- PowerPC
604e: Sirocco
- PowerPC
604e (revamped): Mach
5
- PowerPC
620: Trident
- PowerPC
630: Boxer, Dino
- PowerPC
740: Arthur
- PowerPC
750: Typhoon
- PowerPC
Video and Multimedia Extensions (VMX): AltiVec,
Desktop 98
- PowerPC
G4: Desktop 99, Max (300+ configuration), V'Ger (500+
MHz configuration, maybe after the omniscient character
in Star Trek:
The Movie)
Miscellaneous/Other
- iMac: C1,
Columbus (back when it was an NC)
- 20th
Anniversary Mac: Spartacus,
Pomona, Smoke & Mirrors
- Bandai
@World: Pippin
(another kind of apple)
- CHRP
Mac project:
Moccasin, Opus & Bloom County
- System
6
- MultiFinder:
Juggler, Oggler,
Twitcher
- System
6.04: Antares
- System
6.05: Big Deal
- System
6.06: SixPack
- System
6.08: Terminator (it terminated the System 6 era)
System 7
- Finder
7.0: Furnishings
2000 (a defunct San Francisco Bay Area furniture store)
- System
7: Blue (System
7 programmers were called "blue meanies"), Big
Bang, M80 (a powerful firecracker), Pleiades
- System
7 Tune-Up: 7-Up
- System
7.01: Road
Warrior (used in first PowerBooks), Beta Cheese
- System
7.1:
Cube-E, I Tripoli (both because the project was
to conform to IEEE standards)
- System
7.1 Pro: Jirocho
- System
7.5: Mozart,
Capone (Apple hoped that like the gangster,
"Capone" would rule over "Chicago",
the code name for Windows 95)
- System
7.5 Update 1.0: Danook
(from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)
- System
7.5 Update 2.0: Thag
(also from Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon)
- System
7.52: Marconi (named after Guglielmo Marconi,
19th century Italian engineer)
- System
7.53: Unity (it
united all the patches and special software of all
models into one update)
- System
7.53 Revision 1:
Buster (CEO Gil Amelio's high school nickname, used
often in later Mac OS versions)
- System
7.53 Revision 2: Son
of Buster
- Mac OS
7.6: Harmony
- Mac OS
7.61: Ides of
Buster
Mac OS 8/9
- Mac OS
8: Tempo
- Mac OS
8.1: Bride of
Buster
- Mac OS
8.5: Allegro,
Scimitar (beta version)
- Mac OS
8.6: Veronica,
Horatio (alpha version)
- Mac OS
8.61: (six
spaces)
- Mac OS
9: Sonata
Mac OS X
- Mac OS
X Server: Rhapsody
- Mac OS
X Server Developer Release 2:
Titan
- Mac OS
X Server 1.0:
Mac OS Enterprise ("Enterprise" is also the
name of Apple's NeXT division)
- Mac OS
X: Cyan, Siam?
(like Siamese twins, Mac OS and Rhapsody will be joined)
- Mac OS
X Mac OS environment: Blue
Box, Classic
- Mac OS
X native environment:
Yellow Box, Cocoa
- Mac OS
X PDF graphics/windows server:
Quartz
- Mac OS
X APIs: Carbon
(all Mac OS life will spring from it)
Other OS Projects
- Mac OS
for Intel: Star
Trek (probably because the Mac OS is boldly going where
it has never gone before)
- defunct
Apple/IBM object-oriented OS:
Defiant, Pink
- defunct
System 8: Copland
(named after Aaron Copland, musician), Maxwell (internal
code name)
- defunct
System 9: Gershwin
(named after George Gershwin, musician)
- Copland
Interface Project:
MUSE (for Maxwell USer Experience)
- CHRP
compliant Mac OS 8:
Orient Express
QuickTime
- QuickTime
1.0: Warhol (an
early version, the Warhol extension, had the icon of a
Campbell's soup can)
- QuickTime
1.5: Dali
- QuickTime
for Java:
Biscotti
- QuickTime
Conferencing: Alexander,
MovieTalk
QuickDraw
- QuickDraw:
didn't have a
codename, but was coined by Jef Raskin in his 1967 PhD
thesis on graphical user interfaces.
- QuickDraw
32-bit: Jackson
Pollock (named after the late American painter famous
for using splashy colors in his work)
- QuickDraw
3D: Escher
(after M.C. Escher, famous for his unique prespectives
of 2 and 3 dimentional art)
- QuickDraw
GX: Serrano
A/UX
- A/UX
1.0: Pigs in
Space
- A/UX
1.11: Circle K
(like the store; maybe it was frequently visited by the
programmers?)
- A/UX
2.0:
Perestroika, Space Cadet
- A/UX
3.0: Hulk Hogan
Networking/Internet
- OT/PPP
1.0: Paris
- LocalTalk:
AppleBus, AppleTalk
- Apple
Remote Access:
976 (a certain popular phone prefix for adult
entertaiment)
- Workgroup
Server 95 A/UX:
Barracuda
- Workgroup
Server 95 AppleShare:
Fugu
- Apple
Token Ring: Frodo
- AppleShare
1.0: 007
- AppleShare
3.0: Killer
Rabbit (Apple engineers love Monty Python)
- Network
Software Installer 1.0: Lumahai
- Network
Software Installer 2.0: Balihai
- Network
Software Installer 3.0: Why-o-wai
- PowerTalk
APIs: Ventoux (a
French mountain resort that hosts bicycle races)
Programming/Scripting
- AppleScript
1.0: Cheeze
Whiz, Gustav (the name of engineer Donn Denman's
rottweiler, the team mascot), Toy Surprise
- AppleScript
1.1: Guava
Surprise, Pure Guava (you can see for yourself by
pressing the Option key while clicking "About
AppleScript")
- OpenDoc:
Amber, Exemplar,
Jedi (a contraction of "Jed and I," which
refers to Jed Harris and Kurt Piersol, original OpenDoc
architects)
- HyperCard:
WildCard (hence
the creator code WILD)
- HyperCard
2.0: Snow, Hot
Water
- HyperCard
IIGS: Bullfinch
- Dylan
Prg. Language:
Denali
Other System Software
- Mac OS
Extended Format (HFS+): Sequoia
(the file system uses b-trees)
- File
Exchange:
Renault
- Apple
II File Mangement Utility: Fishhead,
Fishhead in Disguise (changed to this when executives
objected to the name)
- Data
Access Manager:
SnarfMan
- Edition
Manager: Diet
Coke
- Layout
Manager: Glass
Plus
- Sound
Manager: DJ, Party Line
- PlainTalk
Speech Recognition:
Casper
- TrueType:
Bass (as in
Saturday Night Live's Bass-O-Matic), Royal
- Apple
Font Pack: Big Sur
- PowerMac
Upgrade enabler: Rocinante (Don Quixote's horse)
- Apple
CD Setup:
Monarch
- Apple
Drive Setup:
Dragonfly
- Mac II
32-bit ROM: Squeaky
(for "squeaky clean", earlier ROMs were
"dirty" because they didn't properly use all
32 bits)
- ImageWriter
/ StyleWriter
- ImageWriter
II: Express
- StyleWriter:
Franklin, Mighty Mouse, Salsa, Tabasco
- StyleWriter
II: Speedracer
- Color
StyleWriter: Logo
- Color
StyleWriter 2200: Calamari
- Color
StyleWriter 2400:
Aurora
- Color
StyleWriter Pro:
Fantasia, Logo
- Color
StyleWriter 4100:
Cabo
- Color
StyleWriter 4500: Baja
LaserWriter
- LaserWriter:
LightWriter
- LaserWriter
LS: Nike
- LaserWriter
NT: Twist
- LaserWriter
SC: Shout
- LaserWriter
IIf: Kirin Dry
(a Japanese beer)
- LaserWriter
IIg: Kirin
(another beer)
- LaserWriter
IINT: Leia
- LaserWriter
IINTX: Darth
Vader
- LaserWriter
IISC: Solo
- LaserWriter
Pro 600: Tollhouse
- LaserWriter
Select 300:
Ninja
- LaserWriter
Select 360:
Viper
- LaserWriter
12/640 PS: Mongoose
- Personal
LaserWriter 300:
Comet
- Personal
LaserWriter 320:
Photon
- Personal
LaserWriter LS:
Nike
- Personal
LaserWriter NT:
Twist
- Personal
LaserWriter SC:
Shout
- Personal
LaserWriter:
Capriccio
- Apple
Monitors
- Apple
Color Plus 14" Display:
Dragon
- Apple
AudioVision 14" Display:
Telecaster
- Apple
Studio Display (Flat-panel): Manta
- Apple
Studio Display (17"): Chablis
- Apple
Studio Display (21"): Moby
(well look at it, it's Moby Dick-huge)
- AppleVision
1710 Display: Hammerhead
- AppleVision
1710AV Display:
Sousa
- Macintosh
16" Color Display:
Goldfish
- Macintosh
12" RGB Display: Mai
Tai
- Macintosh
21" Color Display:
Vesuvio (maybe related to the volcano that buried
Pompeii in A.D. 79)
- Macintosh
21" Monochrome Display:
Fred, Kong (its colossal size is reminiscent of King
Kong)
Keyboards/Mice
- Apple
Standard Keyboard: Eastwood
- Apple
Keyboard II: Elmer,
Dvrfer
- Apple
Adjustable Keyboard:
Norsi
- Apple
Extended Keyboard:
Dörfer (Ed Colby's nickname), Saratoga (named after the
aircraft carrier because of size; prototypes had small
model carriers decorated on them)
- Apple
Extended Keyboard II:
Elmer, Nimitz (another aircraft carrier)
- Apple
Desktop Bus Mouse II: Topogigo
(Europe & Latin America's equivalent to Mickey
Mouse)
Scanners / Digital Cameras
- OneScanner:
Half-Dome, Ping-Pong
- OneScanner
600/27: Rio
- Onescanner
1200/30: New
Orleans
- OneScanner
for Windows:
WinDome
- QuickTake
100: Venus
Apple Drives
- Apple
871 Floppy Drive:
Twiggy
- Apple
Hard Disk 400SC: A
Ts'ah (Japanese for eagle), Eagle
- Apple
PowerCD: Tulip
- AppleCD
600: Hollywood
- AppleCD
800: Stingray
Motherboard / Case Designs
- iMac:
Columbus (I guess a similar motherboard will be used for
the Apple Media Player)
- PowerMac
G3: Gossamer
- PowerMac
G3 Pro: Gossamer
II, Yosemite
- PowerMac
G3 Pro case: El
Capitan (as in the ultimate climber's challenge in
Yosemite National Park, it's a translucent blue tint)
- PowerMac
5400/6400:
Alchemy, Gazelle (enhanced model)
- PowerMac
8500/9500:
Tsunami
- PowerMac
8600/9600: Kansas
- PowerMac
8600/9600 case:
K2 (as in the 2nd highest mountain on earth)
- Motorola
StarMax systems:
Tanzania
PowerBook / PB Duo / Newton
Harware
- PowerBook
100 Conner Peripherals HD: Elwood (as in the
Blues brother, 40MB configuration), Jake (The other
Blues Brother, 20MB configuration)
- PowerBook
100 internal modem:
O'Shanter & Bess
- PB Duo
Dock II: Atlantis
- PB Duo
MiniDock:
Spaniard
- PB Duo
Floppy Adapter:
Blackwatch
- PB
Trackpad: Midas
(after the mythological king that turned everything he
touched into gold)
- Newton
MessagePad 110 Charging Station:
Crib
Internet/Networking
- AppleTalk
Internet Router:
North (for Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North who routed
Iranian arms sale to the Nicaraguan Contras)
- ISDN
NuBus Card:
CarCraft
- Apple
Freedom Network: Frogger
PCI - PDS - Nubus - Other
- iMac
I/O controller:
Paddington
- PowerMac
G3 Extreme PCI slots: Oakridge
- PowerMac
G3 Extreme Cache controller: Brick
& Trigger
- PowerBook
3400 PCI bus:
PowerStar
- PowerPC
Upgrade Card:
STP (after the automobile fuel additive)
- PowerPC
Upgrade for PB 5x0:
Malcom
- Power
Mac AV Card:
Planaria
- Quicktime
3D Accelerator Card:
White Magic
- PC
Compatibility Card /w Intel 486:
Gaucho
- PC
Compatibility Card /w Pentium:
Grand Illusion
- Apple
PC Drive Card:
Emerald City
- PCI
MPEG-1 Video Card:
San Francisco
- IIe LC
PDS card: Double
Exposure
- Quadra
610 DOS PDS card:
Houdini (maybe because it took Houdini to make
DOS-compatible Macs), Royal Scam (well, isn't it?)
- IIgs
Video Overlay Card:
Gumby, Pokey
- Mac II
Hi-Res Monochrome Card: Bob
the Card
- Mac II
21" Monochrome Card:
Barney
- AppleColor
High-Resolution RGB Monitor Video Card:
Toby
- Mac
IIci Cache Card:
American Express, Optima (tacky joke, both are
"cash cards")
- LocalTalk
serial card:
Livonia
- IIe LC
PDS card: Double
Exposure
- IIgs
Video Overlay Card:
Gumby, Pokey
Other Apple Hardware
- AppleDesign
Powered Speakers:
Badger
- AppleDesign
Powered Speakers II:
Baby Badger
- 1MB
Apple Inline Cache:
Sam-I-Am
- AISS:
Making Waves
Removable Storage
- Iomega
JAZ drive: Viper
- SyQuest
EZ135:
RoadRunner
Other Computers
- IBM PC:
Chess, Acorn
- IBM PC
AT: Bigtop,
Salmon
- NeXT
Computer: Big
Mac, 3M (because it had a million pixel display, a
million bytes of memory, and ran a million instructions
per second)
- Power
Computing PowerWave 604 series:
TidalWave (maybe because of the similar 9500's code
name, Tsunami)
- Power
Computing's CHRP system:
Project Grail (as in the Holy Grail of Mac computing)
Other Monitors
- Radius
Color LCD:
Ptolemy
- RasterOps
ColorBoard264:
Cheapskate
- SuperMac
PDQ: Snap
- SuperMac
Thunder/24: Pop
(from Rice Krispies, Milk never saw the light of day)
- SuperMac
Thunder/8:
Crackle (also from Rice Krispies)
- Radius
flat-panel pivoting color LCD:
Ptolemy
- Apple
- WebObjects
3.0: Shiva
- At
Ease: Tiny Toons
- MacDraw:
Mackelangelo
- MacDraw
Pro 1.0:
Chameleon, Maui
- MacWrite:
Macauthor
- MacWrite
Pro 1.0: Old Pro
- MacWrite
Pro 1.5: Cue
Ball
- MacWrite
Pro 1.5v3:
Shakespeare
- MacsBug:
a contraction of Motorola Advanced Computer Systems
debugger
- GUS
(Apple IIGS emulator):
GUS is reportedly the original code name
- eWorld:
Aladdin
Claris
- FileMaker
Pro: Ninja,
Samurai, Banzai
- Claris
MacProject: Road
Runner
- ClarisDraw:
Expressway
- ClarisImpact:
Wall Street (Claris was confident that it would make
lots of money and appeal to business users)
- ClarisWorks:
Terminator (because it was designed to terminate
Microsoft Works sales)
Dantz
- Dantz
DiskFit Direct:
Paris
- Dantz
Retrospect 2.0:
Warpaint
- Dantz
Retrospect 3.0:
Peary
Microsoft
- MS
Excel: Odyssey
- MS
Mail 4.0: Capone
- MS
Windows 95:
Cairo, Chicago
- MS Windows 95
Update: Nashville
- MS
Windows 98:
Memphis
Other Companies
- Netscape
Communicator 4:
Galileo
- MacX:
Malcom (probably because of the "X" relation)
- Acrobat:
Houdini
- Lotus
MarketPlace:
Surfer
- dBASE
IV 2.0: X-15
(after the experimental jet with which Chuck Yaeger set
world speed records.)
- FullWrite:
Ozone
- MacroModel:
Zeppo (Mac version), Harpo (PC version), Gummo (Silicon
Graphics version)
- Quattro
Pro 1.0: Buddha
(because they were going to assume the Lotus position)
- Quattro
Pro 2.0: Splash
(because one million units sold would pay for the new
campus swimming pool)
- Sun's
Mac emulator:
Cat-in-the-Hat
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