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Not to pick nits but Z-80 was Zilog (A better version...)However on the Primary issue here you are correct. Windows for all it's flaws has been Windows (or Windoze or WinDOHs) since it was a kludge piled on top of DOS. Now it's a kludge that no longer based on DOS but it's still Windows. For some reason though we don't think of the absolute crap that Windows 1 and 2 were or the horribly unreliable '95 '98 and (shudder) ME. We think of 2000 and XP and how good they have become.
We in the iSeries community remember CPF and OS/400 and now i5/OS. We don't think badly at all about those older versions we just remember them as solid and reliable but that they didn't have near the function level of what we had now. We also remember that CPF ran in 1Meg of memory and OS/400 started life capable of running in 4MB (OK 8 really but..) We don't carry any bad baggage about the old name. IBM Believes however that the public does. So they are changing the name in an effort to lose the 'Legacy Baggage'. But we IN the community can remember the history no problem. Hopefully those NOT in the community won't and just see the new features and capabilities. Will it work? Dunno, but it sure should irritate the faithful as much as it has.
- Larry Don wrote:
Trevor, Dr. Franken.... not to mention the Z-80 series....With all due respect, hardware isn't what makes the sale. The application does and so does the O/S. Back (when), the hardware platform was significant and a major part of the purchase/use decision. Now, it's the application and the O/S...and it has been for at least 6 years.Now, How many times has MS renamed Windows? I'm not talking about 3.1, 3.11, NT, 95.....XP, I'm talking about changing from Windows to Doors, and a few years later calling it Walls, maybe later Ceilings....with that many changes and lack of pruduct recognition continuity, it would end up in the Gutters.How many times has Unix changed it's name?Do the majority of users really care what chipset they run windows or linux on? Not generally. They just want it to run.There is alot to be said for product brand name continuity, and alot more to be said for picking a good name to begin with.At 02:14 PM 2/2/2006 -0500, you wrote:>Trevor Perry wrote: >HP, Sun, never changed the name of their server? How about intel with 8088,More like 8008 8080 8086 80186 80286 80386dx 80386sx 80486dx 80486sx Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentinum III, Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III Xeon, Pentium 4, Pentium-M, Centrino and my favorite: Itanic! ..or something like that.286, 386, 386SX, 486, 486SX, Pentium, Pentium M, Centrino.... ?- Larry
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