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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 220

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 220. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Daytime greeting in Paris brings discovery and resolution on the network.

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Bonjour

Daytime greeting in Paris (bonjour in French) brings discovery and resolution on the network (what it does as a form of zero-configuration networking).

2: Meeting point changed by Apple in 2005 after a clash of names.

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Rendezvous

Meeting point (a rendezvous) changed by Apple in 2005 (when it was renamed Bonjour) after a clash of names (it was renamed in settlement of a trademark dispute with TIBCO).

3: Chat among fruit came in 1985 but couldn’t compete with Ethernet and finally died in 2009.

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AppleTalk

Chat (talk) among fruit (apple) came in 1985 (released in early 1985) but couldn’t compete with Ethernet (in 1987 Apple introduced EtherTalk) and finally died in 2009 (support was finally dropped in Mac OS X 10.6 in 2009).

The common factor

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They each refer to networking that doesn’t require user configuration, but just works.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.