7 Oct
1998
7 Oct
'98
12:50 p.m.
I wrote:
It certainly didn't officially have the name
'Apple VI' (or Apple 6), but
it is obvious that marketing viewed it that way, since they were responsible
for assigning the product codes.
Sam replied:
Or they simply needed to fit the Lisa product line
into their existing
numbering system, and arbitrarily chose A6.
Yes, it may have been entirely arbitrary. More likely, some other projects
were assigned the A4 and A5 numbers. However, my point was that no matter how
'6' happened to be chosen, from a marketing point of view that made it an
Apple 6.
Based on your reasoning, you could just as easily claim that the Pentium 60
was not really an 80501. After all, Intel never used the '80501' number
in big print in their advertising.
Eric