Gavin writes:

> I wish I had a nickel for every Allegro-something in the world.  We'll
>  complain about the other "Allegro Consultants" that pop up from time to
>  time, but the project names, TV remote controls, and semiconductor
>  manufacturers simply generate confused email and telephone calls.  We
>  finally created an "Other Allegros" page on out web site to help out people
>  who are lost:
>
>     http://www.allegro.com/other_allegros.html
>
>  but apparently few people actually *read* web pages but just go directly to
>  the contact links when they're in the mood to order chips or complain about
>  the fact that they've lost the instructions for programming their remote
>  controls.

While having multiple Allegroes seems reasonable enough, you'd never guess
that there are so many AICS'es out in the world. So far, I've tabulated 42
different AICS'es. We have our own institutes of sport and culture, weapon
systems, different kinds of meetings, a bunch of different forms of software,
African churches, aboriginal schools, crime incident reporting systems, word
processors (completely unrelated to ours, btw) and on-line universities. One
the AICS'es that I like the most is "Almost Intelligent Compter Systems."

Here's one web page for AICS software ("going from aches to AICS" is their
tagline):

     http://cru2.cahe.wsu.edu/accountability/

However one of the prettiest pages is this one for Aboriginal Independent
Community Schools in Western Australia:

     http://www.aics.wa.edu.au/

Wirt Atmar
"Proud to be associated with AICS for 28 years now"

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