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They could have licensed Compaq’s version. By the way, the Gateway 2000 was a machine by Gateway, not a vendor.
by ryao 1y ago
They could have licensed Compaq’s version.
By the way, the Gateway 2000 was a machine by Gateway, not a vendor.
- canucker2016 1y agoNo. Gateway 2000 was the actual name of the company at that time. They dropped the 2000 close to the year 2000. I assume it wouldn't look good for a forward-looking tech company to be named for a year in the past. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_2000
- ryao 1y agoWell, that explains why I had thought it was a very popular model. :/