Re: Oracle joins the NoSQL fray
From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:19:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <d557ce78-8d5f-46ef-a1d8-91703f678621_at_b6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 5, 3:29 pm, "phil_herr..._at_yahoo.com.au" <phil_herr..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Back in my time we didn't have infantile brand names like Mongo,
> Couch, Ubuntu, Cassandra, Futon or Hadoop. We had manly-sounding
> brands like Cray, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, Evans & Sutherland, SGI, Pick,
> and Burroughs! Reliable names... names redolent of hard work in the
> hot sun, from a time when getting tattoos meant you really were an
> outsider, not just some try-hard conformist.
>
> I miss the old days. Just don't mention Wang.
>
> Now, where's my whisky?
>
> -- Phil
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:19:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <d557ce78-8d5f-46ef-a1d8-91703f678621_at_b6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 5, 3:29 pm, "phil_herr..._at_yahoo.com.au" <phil_herr..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Back in my time we didn't have infantile brand names like Mongo,
> Couch, Ubuntu, Cassandra, Futon or Hadoop. We had manly-sounding
> brands like Cray, DEC, Hewlett-Packard, Evans & Sutherland, SGI, Pick,
> and Burroughs! Reliable names... names redolent of hard work in the
> hot sun, from a time when getting tattoos meant you really were an
> outsider, not just some try-hard conformist.
>
> I miss the old days. Just don't mention Wang.
>
> Now, where's my whisky?
>
> -- Phil
Pick? Those guys rented a condo in Long Beach (CA) and pretended to be living there, because it was zoned residential. Manly? They called it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system#History
I guess if they were doing it today they'd have GIRLS on the COUCH, so ok, that's manly, unless it's at SDSU.
BLISS-86? Mladen, you made me throw up a little in my mouth. ftp://freevms.nvg.org/pub/vms/freevms/
jg
-- _at_home.com is bogus. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/04/sdsu-offer-lgbt-major/Received on Thu Oct 06 2011 - 16:19:25 CDT