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In article <c5a369c448%Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk> Graeme Wall wrote:
> In article <48c48ff9c6reghems@argonet.co.uk> Reg Hems wrote:
>> In article 
>> <Pine.HPP.3.96L.990114004252.9658B-100000@club.eng.cam.ac.uk>
>>           Nigel Parker <95ncp@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>>> ACORN LAUNCHES ELEMENT 14

>>> 14 January 1999, Cambridge UK-- Acorn Group plc (ACN) today 
>>> announced that its 100%-held operating company Acorn Computers 
>>> Limited is adopting a new name, Element 14 Ltd.

>>> Element 14 is targeted .... Intellectual Property (IP) .... is 
>>> aggressively growing its sales of the Active range of highly.... 

>> Forgive me for being na�ve perhaps, but is this a wind-up? 

>> I have worked for 35 years as Product Manager (Marketing) for an 
>> Engineering Company, swallowed up in 1965 by an US conglomerate and
>> this announcement uses the PC lingo of M-speak.  
                              ^^
Reading this again, I should perhaps point that I did not mean PCs.

>>> During this period, Acorn has also undertaken a controlled 
>>> de-emphasis on desktop products, highlighted by the recent sale 
>>> of Acorns 50% shareholding in Xemplar - an education joint 
>>> venture with Apple.
> Love the manajmuntspik, In English: we dumped it in a hurry 
> because we hadn`t got a clue what to do with it.

ROTFL. Uh... what does 'manajmuntspik' stand for?

This reminds me of the 'communiqu�s' issued during the war by the 
German High Command to keep the public in the occupied territories
informed of their advances in Russia: 
"Strategic withdrawal, eliminating pockets of 'resistance' through 
 Tactical straightening of front lines."

My father followed 'progress' on maps, comparing it with the 'same'
information received on London radio with our clandestine crystal 
set. 
�
* The distinction between past, present, and future is only an                  illusion, however persistent - Albert Einstein 1955

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