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From: maloff@calgary.UUCP (Sheldon Maloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Grabbing the mouse port.
Message-ID: <1213@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 00:36:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 00:36:04 1987
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In article <4436@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> 
> 	Stupid Idea:  Way back when, when the Amiga first came out, I didn't
> like the name "AmigaDOS" at all.  It wasn't imaginative enough.  So I
> started calling it AMTOS for a while (Amiga Multi-Tasking Operating System).
> What say ye?       ^^^^^
                     ^^^^^---AMTOS

What say ye not.  Too easily mistaken for:  (drum roll)

		AMiga Trameil Operating System!!!!
		**    *       *         *

Could have the Atari folks think we stole one of the greatest operating
systems of all time, could we now :-) :-)


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