Re: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400

Better example, I don't call the computer on my desk an Optiplex even though that is what it's brand name is, and certainly Dell would probably prefer me to call it that. Instead I call it a PC. The HP computer I have on my desk at home? I call it a PC despite the HP branding. Does that mean people dredge up visions of early 1980's technology when I say PC? No it doesn't, even though the brand names are more numerous and change more frequently than anything IBM has made, everyone calls them PC's, and for some reason despite the name can make the mental jump between the PC of 1981 and the PC of today. So should we begin berating people for calling their desktop computer a PC since we all know that IBM hasn't made PC's since 1987. For me your argument is as tired as it has ever been, and not compelling.

Though I have to admit, watching this thread has been about as entertaining as watching the street evangelists shouting at all the passersby on a college campus.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Date: 09/29/2011 01:32PM
Subject: Re: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400

Trevor Perry wrote:

This is the entire point of this discussion. IBM i on Power is NOT an
AS/400, NOT another name change.

And my point is that a current-model, Intel-based, MacBook Pro is NOT my
"Bionic Desk Lamp" G4 iMac, nor the  G3-based Performa 5215 that's still
sitting next to it (and still occasionally gets powered up), and it's
MOST CERTAINLY NOT the 68000-based Mac128 that made its debut in a
famous Superbowl TV ad titled "1984" (see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 if you don't remember), nor
the Mac Plus on which I first learned how to use ResEdit to subvert the
look-and-feel.

And yet they're all called "Macintosh."

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JHHL