From: pmod@american.edu (Peter M. O'Donnell) Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [comp.unix.osf.osf1] Re: Name that (Digital) UNIX! Date: 28 Jan 1998 10:07:02 +0100 Subject: Re: Name that (Digital) UNIX! From: bobd@araminta.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula) Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1, comp.sys.dec Terry Shannon wrote: >Concurrent with the announcement of a partnership with Sequent, Digital >stated that the Digital UNIX (ne DEC OSF/1) name would be changed. >Apparently no name has been selected yet, which provides an interesting >opportunity for a "Name the OS" contest. Taking some inspiration from various marketing and other successes I thought up a few more alternate name candidates last night: 1.) Deegetal Uneex ('cause we don' need no steenkeng Weendoz) 2.) "I Can't Believe It's Not Ultrix!" (Get back some of those DECStation fans) 3.) DECStep 4.) DECSODENT (So what if 4 out of 5 other vendors picked SysV?) 5.) Mercedrin (Relieves the pain caused by common Intel OSes) 6.) DECTRON (Defender of the Computing Universe! Take a loss on the hardware and the OS, but more than make it up with a series of action figures) 7.) DEC-O-BELL (Want Some?) 8.) Preparation-U (Relieves those painfully inefficient memory usage inflamations and discomforts caused by other OSes) 9.) "Actimates' Barney Ultimate Accessory Package" (Hey, DEC's partnered with MS before, so why not make the ultimate leap of faith?) 10.) Meownix (target a whole new and unexploited marketplace for computing with millions of potential new customers!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: Of course, these are just some wildly speculative mental meanderings which only represent my own fevered wild imaginings (doubtless induced by that fifth cup of coffee...) and are only really fodder suited for fans of Conspiracy Theorists Weekly and their ilk (the rest of you can direct your attention back to BillyBoBob Brains' plan to revitalize DEC and to TAKE OVER THE WORLD)