[comp.sys.mac.misc] Cerulean Data

tfarring@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Tim Farrington) (06/16/91)

Does anyone know why there is a file on the sys7 disks called Cerulean data?
I know it has system resources in it, but why the name Cerulean Data?
Just Wondering

Tim Farrington
tfarring@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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pem@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au (Peter E. Middleton) (06/17/91)

To: tfarring%eniac.seas.upenn.edu@munnari.cs.mu.oz
Subject: Re: Cerulean Data
In-reply-to: your article <44720@netnews.upenn.edu>
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> 
> Does anyone know why there is a file on the sys7 disks called Cerulean data?
> I know it has system resources in it, but why the name Cerulean Data?
> Just Wondering
> 
> Tim Farrington
> tfarring@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
        Well I understand that the System 7 project was called "Blue"
and was worked on by a bunch of "Blue Meanies". "Cerulean" is a shade
of blue!

	Cute aint it!
regards
	peter
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gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu (06/17/91)

In article <44720@netnews.upenn.edu>, tfarring@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Tim Farrington) writes:
>
>Does anyone know why there is a file on the sys7 disks called Cerulean data?
>I know it has system resources in it, but why the name Cerulean Data?
>Just Wondering

I don't have a dictionary handy for the -exact- definition, but
"cerulean" is a color the shade of sky-blue.  System 7, in it's
infancy, was known by the code name "Blue".  Programmers on the System
7 project (such as the frequently-posting Dean Yu) were known as "Blue
Meanies".  There is a SND that System 7 installs called "Indigo."

All-in-all, it's due to the project being code-named "Blue."

Me, I want to know why the same file was called "Chocolate Data" in
one of the beta releases... <grin>

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pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) (06/20/91)

In article <1991Jun17.133106.11652@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes:
>Me, I want to know why the same file was called "Chocolate Data" in
>one of the beta releases... <grin>

Jim, I'd suspect that was put in place by one of the Meanies "in a
Mountain Dew induced haze," as is so often the case :-)

Perhaps we should start the vote for the name of the next Developer's
CD-ROM?  I mean really, "Lord of the Files"?  Not hardly punny enough.
Must have been an off day :-)
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