Re: The BBC name.
Niall O Broin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.bbc.general |
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| Organization | Irish Linux Users Group |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Monday 30 June 2003 18:17, Jon Niehof wrote: > That's what the computer was named for actually. The Beeb > commissioned or was somehow involved in the design of the > computer from Acorn. Indeed - the BBC ran a series about computing and wanted to have an official computer to go along with the series. Acorn won the competition, much to the chagrin of Clive Sinclair who wanted them to use what would be the Sinclair Spectrum. > And many UK'ers might take umbrage at being called European. > Or an island. Can't fight geography. Great Britain IS an island, and it does lie off the coast of mainland Europe, with whose history it has been inextricably linked, largely because it has been at war with just about all of it at one stage or another. -- Niall O Broin