And then there was Star Wars (AKA: A New Hope [which was added when
the film was rereleased as part of the release of The Empire Strikes
Back]) which opened with a crawl saying Episode 4". That was just
because they were emulating the old serials where each segment was a
numbered Chapter with its own title (which often reflected the
cliffhanger being resolved or the plot point of that chapter).
At 09:57 -0800 on 01/22/2016, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Compile error:
It's Friday, right? After the release of Mel Brooks' History of the World
Part I, he was often asked when we could expect to see Part II. He claimed
never to have intended a Part II. Then why call it Part I? Because that
qualifier is almost never used. The first one is called Name; the next one
is Name II or Name Part 2. If you think about our biz, we do the same thing.
We name all sorts of elements and components such that the first one gets a
vanilla name; the next one--usually not contemplated in the original
design--gets various kinds of qualifications. The idea of naming the very
first one with a 'two' is fallout from modern marketing obfuscation, where
ordinary logic is irrelevant or downright inimical.
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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
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Probably just an old fairy tale, but I was told long ago that DB2 came
about as a
name because IBM already had IMS so the 2 in DB2 was to distinguish it as
being IBM's second DBMS offering.
Rex
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Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Compile error
The name 'DB2' seems to have followed the 1980s tradition of what I call
'name
bloat', the practice of inflating a moniker in one way or another to make
a
product look more mature or more elegant. The paragon in my mind was
dBASE II from Ashton-Tate. There never was a plain old dBASE. The roman
numeral was added from the get-go to make the product seem new and
improved.
Moreover, there was never an 'Ashton'. That name was invented because,
gosh
darn it, it sounded good hyphenated with Tate, a real person.
Before DB2 there was precedent for name bloat within IBM. There never was
a
plain old 'JES'. The product emerged from the cocoon as JES2. There had
been a
predecessor product called 'HASP', which may or may not have been an
acronym for Houston Automatic Spooling Priority, but the name 'J-E-S' was
born complete with suffix.
Meanwhile there did emerge a 'JES3', but it was not an evolutionary
descendant of JES2. Both products have coexisted, albeit uneasily, for
decades.
We used to imagine a JES5 or JES6 (depending on one's arithmetic
proclivity) that would somehow combine the best features of both products,
but it's almost certainly DOA. Likewise, the prospects for a 'DB3' are as
dim as a
distant star.
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