I would have liked the Palm MiniIII or the Palm MiniV (could be mIII or
mV). I guess there were too many suffixes on the Roman numerals already...
(Vx, IIIc, IIIe, VIIx, etc....)
-Rus
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Sabram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>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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