I was kinda hoping it was about the Mac SE or the Mac Classic

If you are coming from a Computer Engineering background or within a IEEE area of influence then SE is used everywhere as an acronym for Software Engineering.

I assume that if you are coming from Computer Science background you are not so caught up on making everyone aware that what you're doing is Engineering, so Software suffices.

I parsed "Classic SE" as "The first version of iPhone SE"

It was pretty much flawless. :)

Funny, I thought Macintosh SE

I had to read this comment to find out.