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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
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Subject: Re: A new Amiga from Japan?
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Date: 16 Jan 90 20:36:40 GMT
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In article <9351@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
[chatter about the "FM Towns"]
>Same here.  It does sound interesting.  The name is silly, though.  I 
>mentioned before, FM Towns sounds like some guy who lives next door to MC Boon
>and Billy-Bob Thudpucker.
>
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>                    Too much of everything is just enough

The Japanese are crazy about English sounding words and syllables (sp?).
So alot of Japanese goods are named with nonsense words. A Sony computer
was called the "HitBit", and the new Sega machine is named "MegaDisk" in
Japan. Also I saw a soft-drink named "Sweat", hmmmm, sounds appetizing
huh?

FM Towns sounds like a CW singer. "And now, performing his latest hit
single, 'I'm Just a Cli in the GUI of Life' is FM Towns!"


                                                      *** mike smithwick ***

"Never trust a surgeon with shaving cuts. . ."
[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]