Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!udel!mmdf From: jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga Origins & Trivia Message-ID: <1921@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 18 Oct 89 02:56:01 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 25 From: Eduardo Horvath <33014-18@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> > Since evryone has been speculating on the origins of the name Amiga, >I decided to ask the horse's mouth, so I called Jay Miner. He said that >Dave Morse was responsible for the name. The original root was Amic as in >Amicable, which then underwent cosmetic changes to become Amiga. Jay wasn't >very clear about this stuff and promised he would ask Dave and put together >a posting if he had time. While you're at the great fountain of Amiga Trivia, how about a few more answers that have surely been bothering many of us old-timers: 1) What happened to Daphne and Portia? 2) What is the significance of the "paw print" inside the Amiga 1000 case along with all the signatures? (Additional question for extra credit: Where else did the paw-print show up?) --- Cal // Cal Jones - Internet: or \X/ BBS: 904-243-6219 1200-9600HST 340Meg, all Amiga --------------------------------------------------------------------- NW Florida's first Amiga BBS running on NW Florida's FIRST AMIGA!