Rus,
> 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....)
How about if Palm got with the times and called it Palm MiniMe (Mini
Millennium Edition) :).
Mike McCollister
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nesse, Rustin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 7:38 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Palm M100 Name Speculation
>
>
> 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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