Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!kennels!sbeagle From: sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz (Sleeping Beagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 07:56:29 GMT References: <21115@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Orb Systems Unlimited, NZ Lines: 28 daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > In article <8116@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) > > > I wish that IDIOT COMPANIES would STOP naming their Amiga peripherals > >"the Axxxx", where "xxxx" is some number... particularly when "xxxx" ends > >with "00", as in "A1500", "A5000", etc. > > > It confuses the FUCK out of consumers. > > I agree. It's stupid. And it's really going to confuse customers, especiall > the customers of these idiot companies, if Commodore ever decides to come up > with a product that'll get a similar knickname, such as an Amiga 1500 or > Amiga 5000, which they very well might. Some fool calling their product > "Axxxx" isn't going to have one iota of an effect on Commodore naming > conventions. Depends. I liked the name that GVP used for their accelrator before the A3000 came out. A3001 probably wasn't going to be confused with any official product but still had the right pedigree. But in general, I would have to agree. -- Sleeping Beagle (aka Thomas Farmer) sbeagle@kennels.actrix.gen.nz The Kennels Ph. +64-4-796306 (voice) 25 Awarua St, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand. "You ain't nothin' but a Hound Dog."