The original internal name for the M100 is "Calvin", a much better name for
the unit.
Personally I think Palm uses cryptic names simply for their own perverse
enjoyment. If you have ever called them you will understand... "now sir
what model do you have. The V, M, X, Y, or Z?"
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Sabram
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 2:39 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Palm M100 Name Speculation
My swag at this is that it stands for "Mobile 100". Or even more remedial,
"Model 100" so it infers an entry level device? I'm
surprised at the naming too since the last PDA with a "100" in the name was
the original Newton.
What I want to know more than name meaning is what progression naming of
future products in this line will take. Are we going to
have "m200" and "m500" products? And when there is wireless service, are we
going to note it such as "m100w" or just "w100". It is
stuff like this that image consulting is all about. I'd love to have been
in the room when they were deciding on "m100" and to go
with the lower case letter.
Most of all, I'd like to know this since we amongst other hardware makers
want to have some sort of name identity with products that
will connect into this unit and have the literature match.
Steve
"McCollister, Mike" wrote:
> 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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