Re: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:20:16 -0700
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Trevor Perry wrote:

This is the entire point of this discussion. IBM i on Power is NOT an
AS/400, NOT another name change.

And my point is that a current-model, Intel-based, MacBook Pro is NOT my "Bionic Desk Lamp" G4 iMac, nor the G3-based Performa 5215 that's still sitting next to it (and still occasionally gets powered up), and it's MOST CERTAINLY NOT the 68000-based Mac128 that made its debut in a famous Superbowl TV ad titled "1984" (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 if you don't remember), nor the Mac Plus on which I first learned how to use ResEdit to subvert the look-and-feel.

And yet they're all called "Macintosh."

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JHHL

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