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Re: CONTEST: name for Apple PPC line!!!
- Subject: Re: CONTEST: name for Apple PPC line!!!
- From: taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)
- Date: 23 Nov 1993 13:12:31 -0500
- In-reply-to: tim@apple.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Terran Exobiology Research Institute, 1-800-GO-ALIEN
- References: <2ck5hq$f06@apple.com>
- Reply-to: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
- Xref: gmd.de comp.sys.powerpc:3631 comp.sys.apple2:36419
In article <2ck5hq$f06@apple.com>, Tim Olson writes...
>
> How about the Macintosh Avatar:
>
> av a tar \'av-e-,ta r\ n
> [Skt avata ra descent, fr. avatarati he descends, fr. ava- away + tarati he
> crosses over more at UKASE, THROUGH]
> (1784)
> 3: a variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity
That might be taken already as a computer product name, but I can't
be sure. "Burger" Bill Heineman's Apple II project bears that name.
Whether he registered it, I wouldn't know.
> --
> -- Tim Olson
> Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset
Sort of ironic (though not unexpected) that an Apple employee is not
aware of this...
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