Laughter, Still the Best Medicine

Sorry IBM, I couldn't resist. IMS, still hierarchical after all these years! Datacom, the other RDBMS Sorry IBM, CA couldn't resist.

And don't forget, the other DB2...


The document below fell into my hands about 1980 or 1981.
Does this perhaps explain why in later years IBM veered away
from such bland naming schemes as OS/VS2 and MVS/XA, to
MVS/ESA - Enterprise Systems Architecture (as in Star Trek?) and OS/2 Warp?
IBM Announces the Virtual Universe Operating System - OS/VU.
Does anyone know who authored this and / or the story behind it? If you do, please let me know!
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Of course, if you already knew all that, then you must be a...mainframer!

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