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- From: ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn's New Babies
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 09:36:29 GMT
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- In article <JRG.92Sep1145632@crane.doc.ic.ac.uk> jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter) writes:
- >
- >On a slightly angle, it really is silly of Acorn to drop the
- >Archimedes and start refering to A this and A that, because the US
- >market knows the A3000 as the name for an Amiga, and will become very
- >confused (if they aren't already). It also leads to sillyness in
- >product packaging, with things like "for Archimedes and A3000" when
- >they're basically the same thing, and Acorn User who dropped the Atom
- >from their masthead, and put both Archimedes and A3000.
- >
- >James
-
- I'd been pondering over this subject recently. What is the 'official'
- title for the A... A.... range of computers that Acorn make. You can't
- use Archimedes, as these are now all out of production, and 'Acorn
- computers' (or similar) does not do either as it includes the Master
- at. al. which you may not want to cover in the description. The only
- term that really fits (and then only just, if you close your eyes
- tight enough and stop thinking about it) is Risc-OS computer.
-
- But what is the 'official' term. I noted that (I think it was in The
- Micro User (soon to be Acorn something-or-other) that Acorn's line was
- the Archimedes was an acceptable 'catch' name, but what is the
- official 'catch' name, something like "Archimedes-BBC A3000-Acorn A####"
- computers???
-
- Ian
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