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- From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Names (was Re: Amiga 1200)
- Message-ID: <36809@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:00:54 GMT
- References: <10006@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> <BxEyw0.Hoz@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Nov9.010658.25678@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
- Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
- >In article <BxEyw0.Hoz@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree) writes:
- ...
- >Amiga trivia:
- >
- >The chip now called Agnus (actually, Fat Agnus, then Super Agnus and now
- >Alice), used to be called Agnes in Commodore's official docs - at least, it
- >was on the A1000. In the earliest days, as well as Agnes, we had Daphne (now
- >Denise) and Portia (now Paula). Does anyone know why the names were changed?
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- To protect the innocent... (;-)
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