In Evita, Buenos Aires is referred to as " B. A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple " in the song Eva, Beware of the City.

NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as " the cube " because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs ' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.

From this model onward, Apple no longer used a numbering scheme to identify their Power Mac models, but instead referred to them by their PowerPC processor generation number ( i. e. G3, G4, and G5 ).

Multiple problems with reliability, stability and safety ( by some, the model was referred as the " HindenBook " because the lithium ion batteries used actually burst into flame in Apple tests, necessitating a recall and downgrade to nickel metal hydride batteries ) were present in the early 5300s.

Apple brandy may be referred to as " applejack ".

AltiVec is a trademark owned solely by Freescale, so the system is also referred to as Velocity Engine by Apple and VMX by IBM and P. A.

Acorn is sometimes referred to as the " British Apple " and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups.

These three competing products by Avid, Adobe, and Apple are the foremost NLEs, often referred to as the A-Team.

Because of the nearby orchards and juice processing plants, Selah is often referred to as " The Apple Juice Capital of the World "

The most frequently encountered species, and the one often simply referred to as " the guava ", is the Apple Guava ( Psidium guajava ).

Prior to the introduction of the term " PDA " by Apple in 1992, handheld personal organizers such as the Sharp Wizard and the Psion Organiser were also referred to as " PIMs ".

All that would be needed was a suitable external analog to digital converter, or " line adapter " as it was referred to in Apple terminology.

In some areas of software development it is at this stage that the release is referred to as a grand or gold release ; the latter seems to be confined mainly to game software though Apple also refer to GM ( gold master ) releases.

As the firmware only worked in this motherboard and no new firmware updates were ever issued, users commonly referred to this version of the Apple IIGS as the " ROM 3 ".

Apple employees, following the example of executive Jean-Louis Gassee, at times referred to it as " MacLeak ", yet some relied on it to distribute information they could not officially disclose, to draw internal corporate attention or funding to their projects, or to find out what was happening in their own company.

To solve this, Apple engineers used the concept of a relocatable handle, a reference to memory which allowed the actual data referred to be moved without invalidating the handle.

Power Computing Corporation ( often referred to as Power Computing ) was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers (" Mac clones ").

* Get a Mac, an Apple ad campaign often referred to as " Mac vs PC "

In 1989, a second edition, dubbed Balance of Power: The 1990 Edition ( sometimes referred to as Balance of Power II ) was released for the Apple II, Windows, Macintosh, Amiga and Atari ST.

XQuartz ( commonly referred to as X11. app ) is Apple Inc .' s version of the X server, a component of the X Window System, for Mac OS X.

It also directly influenced his design of Integer BASIC ( which he referred to as " Game Basic "), with his Integer BASIC version of Breakout being the first " proof of concept " application running on the prototype Apple II.

Ultimately, the G4 architecture design contained a 128-bit vector processing unit labelled AltiVec by Motorola while Apple marketing referred to it as the " Velocity Engine ".

) Throughout, Apple also referred to a follow-on system code named Gershwin, which would follow Copland and add advanced features deliberately left out of Copland.

Sometimes also referred to as the: Baker Boy, Apple Cap, Eight Panel, Cabbie, Jay Gatsby ( from The Great Gatsby ), Fisherman's Cap, Pageboy, Applejack Hat and Lundberg Stetson.

* Heads or Tails was the name of the SoBe under-the-cap promotion where consumers could instantly win prizes, including SoBe apparel, Apple iPods, Apple MacBook Pros, or product coupons for future purchases.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

Apple would later use this in an advertisement showing a network being created between two seats in an airplane.

He made history in the Big Apple of Hiphop by being the first non-American to fly into the finals of The World Supremacy Battle of DJs.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

This microprocessor was the first low-power CMOS processor chip, quite on a par with the 8-bit 6502 that was being built into the Apple II desktop computer at that time.

After hearing about the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC from former Xerox employees like Raskin, Jobs negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options.

After several months of being sidelined at Apple, Jobs resigned on Friday, September 13, 1985.

When attempting to increase processing power, Apple was hampered by the overheating problems of the 68040 ; this resulted in the 100-series PowerBook being stuck with the aging 68030 which could not compete with newer-generation Intel 80486-based PC laptops introduced in 1994.

* The first release of Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X was code-named " Cheetah ", which set the pattern for the subsequent releases being named after big cats.

Inspired by his schoolmaster, Philip H. Burton, he excelled in school productions, his first being The Apple Cart.

After 1987, IBM PC compatibles dominated both the home and business markets of commodity computers, with other notable alternative architectures being used in niche markets, like the Macintosh computers offered by Apple Inc. and used mainly for desktop publishing at the time, the aging 8-bit Commodore 64 which was selling for $ 150 by this time and became the world's best-selling computer, the 16-bit Commodore Amiga line used for television and video production and the 16-bit Atari ST used by the music industry.

* Apple: Picture an apple being fired from a gun

At the time, Apple planned to release a suite of AppleTalk products as part of the Macintosh Office, with the LaserWriter being only the first component.

Despite being impacted by diversion of resources to jump start the Apple / IBM / Motorola effort, the POWER2 took five years from start to system shipment.

Apple released Final Cut Pro in 1999, and despite not being taken seriously at first by professionals, it has evolved into a serious competitor to Avid.

The Apple IIe has the distinction of being the longest-lived computer in Apple's history, having been manufactured and sold for nearly 11 years with relatively few changes.

The performance of early core memories can be characterized in today's terms as being very roughly comparable to a clock rate of 1 MHz ( equivalent to early 1980s home computers, like the Apple II and Commodore 64 ).

The festival pays tribute to Seymour's apple industry, which began in the 1840s, with Seymour being called " The Land Of The Big Red Apple " around the turn of the 20th century, when Webster County produced more than 50 percent of the state's apple crop.

The result was the Commodore PET ( RAM, discrete logic graphics ), launched in 1977 – one of three historic home / personal computers to appear that year, the two others being the Apple II ( also 6502-based ) and the TRS-80 ( with a Zilog Z80 ).

It is based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format, introduced in 1985 on the Amiga 1000, the only difference being that multi-byte integers are in little-endian format, native to the 80x86 processor series used in IBM PCs, rather than the big-endian format native to the 68k processor series used in Amiga and Apple Macintosh computers, where IFF files were heavily used.

Nicknamed " The Little Apple " as a play on New York City's " Big Apple ", it is best known as being the home of Kansas State University and has a college town atmosphere.