Interesting, though I still do wonder with all the marine names if "job
access with speech" was thought up after the fact and the name is still
related to flipper sinse it sounds pretty clunky to me as if it was an
acronym matched to an existing name, still I suppose we'll never know.
It's a shame Nvda wasn't called octipus, or better still the cracken! (which
is also one of my favourite types of rum), unless the Nvda maintainers have
been lying to us and it really stands for neptunes very damp arse! :D.
Bewar ethe #grue!
Dark.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast
and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even
the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] info AudioGames Game Engine
Hi Dark,
I got you now. Actually, Orca's name isn't derived from Flipper but from
Jaws.
As I understand it the guy who started the project was a Jaws user so
wanted to name his screen reader Jaws or something like it. Since Orca
is the name of killer whales he named it Orca in honor of Jaws. By the
time Orca began development a few years ago Flipper had long been a
thing of the past.
Cheers!
On 6/16/15, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Hi tom.
Ah, rereading my message I see where my phrasing went a bit wrong. what I
meant as reggards Dolphin and Orca is that both derived their names from
the
flipper screen reader, not that Dolphin developed Orca which they
obviously
do not :D.
As for Jaws, I was told that fact by someone from dolphin as well that
it's
name was also related to flipper so fair enough if I'm incorrect, though
I
do think it's an amusing coincidence.
Btw, hal, the original namefor what is now supernova got it's name not as
I
originally thought from the computer in 2001 Space odyssey, but because
it's
one letter down from Ibm.
This is a little weerd though sinse dolphin's other two main products at
that time were luna, the screen magnifyer and supernova, the combined
speech
and magnification system, ---- makes me think they should've called Hal
stellar or something but there you go :D.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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