Look what was posted on comp.sys.powerpc

[msjohnso@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (micah shane johnson)]

Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc
Subject: Re: CONTEST:  name for Apple PPC line!!!
Date: 20 Nov 1993 04:13:46 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California

Jason Newquist writes
| Apple is famous for hiring out entire advertising agencies to come up with
| product names that are catchy, cool and gripping to the ear.  Yet, these  
| names
| mean nothing in the real world.  Pretend that YOU are Michael Spindler and
| YOU can decide what the name will be!

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 

--
	-- Tim Olson
	Apple Computer Inc. / Somerset
	
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HEY, wait a minute.  Doesn't Burger Bill have a copyright on this
name??  Look, it's an Apple employee no less.
I cry unfair!!


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