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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!TomK
- From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
- Message-ID: <69109@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 10:40:43 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP>
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- >How about Commodore calling some more chips by -male- or sex-neutral names,
- >or better still, leave out the anthropomorphisms........
-
- I don't think any misogyny was implied by the monikers applied to the visage
- of the aforementioned electronic componenets; any more than the common, but
- affectionate, familiar of ships as "she".
-
- That said, I am beginning to suspect the best places of higher learning are
- no longer found in the New England area, but are probably located in Texas,
- particularly those centers dealing with babbage machines and difference
- engines.
-
- TomK@cup.portal.com
- Tom Krotchko
-