They could have licensed Compaq’s version.

By the way, the Gateway 2000 was a machine by Gateway, not a vendor.

No.

Gateway 2000 was the actual name of the company at that time.

They dropped the 2000 close to the year 2000. I assume it wouldn't look good for a forward-looking tech company to be named for a year in the past.

	▲	ryao 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, that explains why I had thought it was a very popular model. :/