"Single instance" machines - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Dec 1998

That's the story I heard.
The original name Commodore chose for the VIC was 'Vixen'.
In German, that's a naughty word, too.

Jeff

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:45:48 -0800 (PST) Cameron Kaiser
&lt;ckaiser(a)oa.ptloma.edu&gt; writes:
...
 ::Trivia question: Why are VIC-20's called VC-20 in
Germany?

The running apocryphal story is because VIC, pronounced "fick" in 
German,
comes out as a naughty word. (Take a guess.) There is some doubt 
about
the veracity of this, of course.

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