On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Logo eh..Good idea. > > Hard to visualize "db". Almost every vendor and schema group represent > db graphically as a cyclinder. Why a cylinder I wonder. It's almost an > industry standard now.
It's supposed to be a "magnetic drum" which was used for storage. People would draw a cylinder on flowcharts- not meaning to be a cylinder but actually meaning for it to be a icon for the drum that held all the data. (now I feel old) -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/
