[Coco] GIME

[Deny Wilson]

Someone internally must have been calling it that and it was communicated
to magazines of the time. The September 1986 issue of Rainbow had an
article by Steve Bjork talking about how the CoCo 3 was a programmers
dream. In that article, he referred to the chip as the GIME. Because you're
right, even the repair manual refers to it by a different name.

Seems like a question for Boisy Pitre.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 9:59 PM Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:

> Yeah, but to the best of my knowledge, Tandy never called it a GIME,
> but somehow _everyone_ else does. Kinda like how Tandy never called it
> a CoCo.
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 9:54 AM Deny Wilson <deny.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > According to Wikipedia, it stands for: Graphics Interrupt Memory
> Enhancement
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:05 AM Rick Ulland <rickulland1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > That is the acronym I remember as well. Anyone know who coined the term
> > > GIME? Everything Tandy I have calls it the ACVC (Advanced Color Video
> > > Chip)... though I prefer 'Gimme' (verb) as a more descriptive name:-)
> > >
> > > -rick
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9/20/20 9:54 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> > > > GIME stands for Graphics Interrupt Memory Enhancement, I think. Or
> > > something like that. I always pronounced it “Gimme!”, which is how
> Rainbow
> > > pronounced.
> > > >
> > > > L. Curtis Boyle
> > > > curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> On Sep 20, 2020, at 8:51 PM, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> I've always personally pronounced both with a hard "G". I can't
> recall
> > > what the letters for GIME stand for, but I'm pretty sure, like GIF,
> the "G"
> > > is for "Graphics" (and I am pretty certain the "M" is for "Memory").
> > > >>
> > > >> I think maybe the whole thing may be (without looking it up - I'm
> sure
> > > it's defined somewhere) something like "Graphics Interface and Memory
> > > Expander" - or something similar.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anyhow - back to the hard "G" thing: I've always said it that way
> for
> > > both, because that's the way the letter is sounded for the word it
> stands
> > > for. You don't say "jrafics" with a "J" sound - you say "graphics"
> with a
> > > hard "G" sound.
> > > >>
> > > >> But I suppose it is all arbitrary - and I still don't understand the
> > > reasoning behind the creator of the GIF format; part of me thinks it's
> all
> > > an early trolling attempt to get people riled up. I guess he was
> successful
> > > at that!
> > > >>
> > > >> On 9/19/20 4:08 PM, coco-request at maltedmedia.com wrote:
> > > >>> Message: 5
> > > >>> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:50:06 -0400
> > > >>> From: Mike Delyea<mdelyea at gmail.com>
> > > >>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > > >>> Subject: [Coco] GIME
> > > >>> Message-ID:
> > > >>>     <
> > > CAA58M+2wm6udW2svizt1VweJvVOwV410ydYXMSQ1+-Vk+waboA at mail.gmail.com>
> > > >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > > >>> I've been watching the many YouTubers doing the #septandy videos
> this
> > > month
> > > >>> and came across one that startled me.  In the video the person
> > > mentions the
> > > >>> GIME chip but pronounced it "jime", like dime with a j instead of
> a d.
> > > >>> I've always pronounced it like "gimmee".  Have I been wrong all
> these
> > > years?
> > > >> --
> > > >> Andrew L. Ayers
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> > > >> phoenixgarage.org
> > > >> github.com/andrew-ayers
> > > >>
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