Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:2329 comp.sys.misc:3218 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!amanda From: amanda@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: Sord M5 Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 16:45:54 GMT References: <1991Jan22.003408.12923@eff.org> <1991Jan22.022921.1393@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991Jan22.053710.28483@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <5582@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Followup-To: alt.religion.computers Organization: Games Research, University of Aalborg, Denmark Lines: 20 In-reply-to: mfterman@burn.Princeton.EDU's message of 22 Jan 91 17:46:35 GMT BTW: Basic-F is a basic with support for Floating point numbers. >>>>> On 22 Jan 91 17:46:35 GMT, mfterman@burn.Princeton.EDU (Mutant >>>>> for Hire) said: Mutant> Wasn't this the machine that took over the Enterprise that one Mutant> episode? Nope, the Enterprise was the name the ELAN Enterprise ended up with, because another computer company already had a computer named ELAN, and because FLAN was to plain silly. The Enterprise was the ultimate 8-bit home computer (with real ANSI Basic and countless graphic modes), but although it was announced before the SORD M5, it did not start shipping until the SORD M5 had been withdrawn from the European marked. -- No, I don't watch TV. Why do you ask?