I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 212. Here are my solutions to them.
1: From floppy to hard but not optical, it formats and partitions.
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Disk Utility
From floppy to hard (disk) but not optical (optical discs are dealt with separately), it formats and partitions (what it does).
2: Databank usefulness for handling zips and more.
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Archive Utility
Databank (archive) usefulness (utility) for handling zips and more (it compresses and decompresses Zip archives and others).
3: Interconnections maximised in game theory but removed in Monterey.
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Network Utility
Interconnections (network) maximised in game theory (game theory seeks to maximise ‘utility’) but removed in Monterey (Apple ‘deprecated’ it in Big Sur by making it non-functional, although it wasn’t completely removed until Ventura, not Monterey. My sincere apologies to anyone who was misled by that, and thanks to Kevin for correcting me).
The common factor
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They have all been utilities bundled in macOS.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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