David Chord wrote in a message to Patrick McCullough:
 PM>  If you happen upon his website, it turns out "Max" is not even a 
 PM> BBS, just a sort of graphical frontend for the user, not unlike 
 PM> RIP or something.
DC> Well, there's the RIP replacement side of it, then there's the BBS
DC> package that if it isn't already available, isn't far from being
DC> available (I know that Larry did a major rewrite of most, if not all
DC> his MaxGraphics stuff. Maybe he put the BBS on hold?)
 Nothing on the webpage about it....
 -snip-
 PM>  After giving it more thought, I think you are right.  We Max-ops
 PM> know  what's what.  It's the innocent newbie types who are going to
 PM> get  confused.
DC> Not here. I've seen a few people enquire, and were able to fathom
DC> out that the two were in fact different things, even if the name
DC> sounds the same. 
 Just seems strange to me that the names are so similar.  Why?  Why
 Max?  Why not anything else?
 PM>  IMO, "MAX" is a bad choice for naming this thing.
 GG> Probably.  Since I hatch Maximus utils with a replace in the MaxFDN,
 GG> any names duplicated by the MaxTerm author will just get stomped on
 PM>  There's a good reason to call this something else. 
DC> Perhaps Larry named his software long before he heard of Maximus?
 Not heard of Maximus?  Right.
 Even if he's never seen the board, you can't miss notes about it
 in every doorgame readme file ("do this to setup this door with
 Maximus:") or all the utilities that proclaim similar things,
 or the file areas on the big BBS software source boards.
 Or the MaxFDN.  Or this echo here.
 In contrast, I've never heard of *his* product anywhere but the
 carnival echo and his webpage. 
DC> Really to late to change now tho, the software's been around for
DC> ages..
 So has Maximus, if you didn't know.  A full-fleged retail product already
 installed on thousands of systems across the globe.
 Someone else can tell you exactly how long it's been around, but the
 boards here have run Maximus 2.02 and 3.01 for the last, oh, four years
 at least.  Probably longer.
 No telling when Maximus 1.x came out.
 Since the beginning, and certainly now, most people refer to it
 by shorthand as "max."
 Odds are, though, that if someone goes looking for BBS files related
 to one Max or the other, they will find things made for Maximus, not
 Maxgraphics.
 Patrick
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