Re: The BBC name.

Jon Niehof <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
> It has, of course, also been used to refer to a broadcasting organisation on a 
> European island
That's what the computer was named for actually. The Beeb 
commissioned or was somehow involved in the design of the 
computer from Acorn.

And many UK'ers might take umbrage at being called European. 
Or an island.
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