Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote:

>Laconic2 wrote:
>
>> mAsterdam wrote:
>>
>>>Encapsulation is never absolute to everyone.
>>>If you need to get under the hood, you'll
>>>have to be able to break the black-box seal.
>>
>> How many times have you ever broken into a pentium?
>
>Zero. I *use* the things as they are.
>However, the designers cannot afford to not look inside,
>and to determine what's inside the sexium/hexium - hmm.. not
>very good names for the american market ... oh well.

     Truly. Back in the days of Pentium-waiting-for-P6, I came up with this sig:

The REAL reason the P6 hasn't been released yet: "The idiot who came up with the Pentium name should be shot! We can't call the P6 the Hexium or the Sexium and Microsoft already took the simple name of Bob."
-part of an argument in Intel's marketing department

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:

     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.