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From: avery@puff.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Daphne
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 02:35:04 EST
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The story is that originally the Amiga was called the Amica, which is Latin
for friend, or friendly, but come copywrite time, they found that Amica was
in use, so they changed the name to Amiga. Supposedly they didn't notice
the Spanish connection, but I'm not so sure.
     As for Daphne, I too would like to know if, when rev. 6 of the chip is
being produced (probably now), we can get it into our machines. I,
for one, would like to be able to see the extra-half-brite if I'm 
developing a program that uses it.