It's always a little scary to look into the mind of marketing, but I'll
have a shot.
"M" for miniature and 100 for the first generation of new smaller
devices.
Maybe the press release is incorrect and it should actually be the PalM
100. After all, Palm has always lost out on the industry trend of
intercaps, so they just wanted to break new ground.
Maybe its not binary at all, but hex? 100 in hex is, like, really big,
and these are, like, really small, so the name is both clever and
ironic.
Maybe the "M" is for Might not work with your current peripherals.
Or they could just be planning an M&M (hopefully not eminem) crossover.
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Or, M could be the Roman numeral M...but M is 1000, not 100. Or,
it could mean 100 M's, or 100,000. But then again, the Palm
100,000? No, that makes no sense at all. =)
-Rus
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>From: McCollister, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 4:51 AM
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>Could it be that the Palm M100 is really the Palm 4? Think of
>it, previous
>devices used decimal (the Pilot 1000 and 5000) and Roman numerals (the
>current crop of devices). Now could Palm be using binary where 100 in
>binary is 4 in decimal? I thinks so. I also think that the
>"M" was placed
>in front of the number just to throw us off :).
>
>Mike McCollister
>maker of stupid Palm programs
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