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- From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
- Subject: Chip Names (was: Amiga 1200)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.020202.9162@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
- References: <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP> <10006@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 02:02:02 GMT
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- In <10006@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
-
- >In article <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP>
- > Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
- >>How about Commodore calling some more chips by -male- or sex-neutral names,
- >>or better still, leave out the anthropomorphisms........
-
- >Hmm, I always considered Agnus a male name. And I myself don't object to
- >such anthropomorphisms, it makes such a cool device much more like a
- >good friend of yours. Yes, I know you should much more talk with your
- >real human friends and not spend all your nights with a computer, but
- >then, this is perhaps one of the mysteries of male humans, as such
- >behaviour obviously is found rather rarely with women.
-
- Hmmmmmm; methinks you might get attacked by the some
- anti-sexists for that comment :-)
-
- Don't know what Paula's so worried about anyway as there's
- "Buster" in all the 32-bit monsters (:-)) and "Gary" in some
- 500s/2000s. I think it's about even, actually.
-
- I really couldn't cope with gender-neutral names unless they
- were common such as "Robin/Robyn" or "Peter/Peta".
-
- C= could nickname a time-of-day clock chip "Harry".
- [Go on: Make my day!] :-)
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