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===Name=== The developers rode bicycles to lunch through rainy Pittsburgh's mud puddles, and Tevanian joked the word "muck" could form a [[backronym]] for their Multi-User (or Multiprocessor Universal) Communication Kernel. Italian CMU engineer Dario Giuse<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.amia.org/about-amia/leadership/acmi-fellow/dario-giuse-phd-ms-facmi |title = Dario A. Giuse, PhD, MS, FACMI |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200823012803/https://www.amia.org/about-amia/leadership/acmi-fellow/dario-giuse-phd-ms-facmi |archive-date = August 23, 2020 |url-status = dead }}</ref> later asked project leader Rick Rashid about the project's current title and received "MUCK" as the answer, though not spelled out but just pronounced {{IPAc-en|m|Κ|k}}. According to the [[Italian alphabet]], he wrote "Mach". Rashid liked Giuse's spelling "Mach" so much that it prevailed.<ref name="singh">{{cite web |url=http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter1/|title=A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems |author=Singh, Amit|date=July 28, 2006 |publisher=osxbook.com |access-date=March 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827125517/http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter1/ |archive-date=August 27, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|103}}
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