Re: Rdb 72 FT2 for Alpha and I64

In article <42f16031$0$67257$157c6196@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Dr. Dweeb"
<NOSPAM_5msg0h202@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> "OpenVMS Industry Standard 64" is the formal name of the operating
system.
>> Yes, it's kinda annoying, but don't blame Oracle for it; if they're
making 
>> a
>> formal press release, they have to call it by the name its owner calls
it.
>>
>
>OK. That is information I did not possess.  Thanks. Ginger & Norm are 
>excused.
>Now, please knife the idiot who coined that phrase and the intellectual 
>lightweights who authorised its use.
>
>I will now go outside and puke.

"OpenVMS Industry Standard 64" is indeed the name of the operating system.

Nobody particularly likes it.  The "idiot" (your term) who came up with it
doesn't like it either.   All the reasonable names run up against Intel
trademark problems, and getting permission to use them would have required
some poor soul to spend months dealing with lawyers in at least two big,
dumb cor****ations, with no guarantee of success.  Meanwhile V8.2 would
have been held up waiting for a name.

But this was more information you did not possess, so naturally you just
assume other folks are idiots and should be knifed.

Go knife yourself.