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From: fozzy@bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xenix on an A2286
Message-ID: <1990Feb12.003413.2718@bhpese.oz.au>
Date: 12 Feb 90 00:34:13 GMT
References: <158700003@peg> <1990Feb8.005754.1958@bhpese.oz.au> <562@lexicon.com>
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fc@lexicon.com (Frank Cunningham) writes:

>In article <1990Feb8.005754.1958@bhpese.oz.au> fozzy@bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele) writes:

>> For those of you who've forgotten (or missed that part of your cultural
>> upbringing :-) ), Zaphod Beeblebrots (sp?) 

>(OBTW, Boston Compact Disc here takes special orders for the BBC 6 CD
>set of the original radio shows.)

Could someone send me some more info on this please.

>Marketeers just have no sense of humour. Zaphod is obviously more
>appropriate, since Janus implies some sort of symmetry.

The original reason I heard was that in Greek mythology Janus had two heads
( which by now we are all aware of :-) ), but the rest of the story is that
one of the heads looked to the future and one head looked into the past.
Calling it a Janus card/software/etc. was actually a suttle dig at IBM
because the Janus stuff could look into the past (IBM) and into the future
(Amiga).

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