From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: New Name for OS/2?
Keywords: The Integration Platform
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:34:00 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Is IBM going to change the name of OS/2?  I was scanning the
archives from *last year* and I found the following suggestions
from the Great Sipples.  What happened to the name change?

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:From: sip1@quads.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
:Subject: New Name for OS/2?
:Date: 4 Jul 91 23:01:08 GMT
:Organization: University of Chicago
:
:I'd like to revive the discussion of a new name for OS/2.  In case you
:haven't heard, IBM is interested in a new name for OS/2, something to
:help its marketing.  And the company is listening to its users on the
:matter.
:
:So, here are a few suggestions to get us started.  I have no idea whether
:these can be trademarked or not.
:
:(1) Unity 1.0.  I like it because it has a "uni" at the front (popular with
:    net people and hinting at that other operating system) and expresses
:    a nice, positive message.  It also roughly describes OS/2 2.0 -- it
:    unites DOS, Windows, OS/2 1.x and OS/2 2.x programs.
:(2) Intuition 1.0.  OK, so perhaps this name stretches credibility.  I wouldn't
:    call Windows intuitive.  When my PC starts asking _me_ the right questions
:    I'll spring for intuitive.  The name also sounds a bit squishy, if that's
:    an adjective.  But it isn't too bad.
:(3) LetWin 1.0.  A little bit of a joke here.  An (the?) author of OS/2,
:    with appropriate capitalization to pick on Micr*s*ft.
:(4) WeWin 1.0.  Ditto.
:(5) WeWon 1.0.  Sorry, just couldn't resist.
:(6) WishList 1.0.  What more could we want in an operating system, after
:    all?
:(7) Reality 1.0.  I like this one.  IBM could take out a full page ad in the
:    Wall Street Journal (remember Apple?) with the headline, "After all the
:    Windows hype, isn't it time for..."  Perhaps they could even start the
:    version number with 1.01, to sound like a college course.
:(8) MouseTrap 1.0.  Fits in with the "A better DOS than DOS..." slogan
:    ("Build a better...")  Not too corporate, though.  Then again, that
:    was the problem with the previous name.
:(9) Relief 1.0.  Might get in trouble with the stomach tablet people on this
:    one, though.
:10) TaskMaster 1.0.  On second thought, it sounds like the operating system
:    is your boss, not the other way around.
:11) MultiDOS 1.0.  Short, simple, and sweet.
:
:I'll keep thinking.
:
:T.F.S.
:Timothy F. Sipples                              sip1@quads.uchicago.edu

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:From: sip1@quads.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
:Subject: Re: New Name for OS/2?
:Date: 13 Jul 91 01:18:10 GMT
:Organization: University of Chicago
:
:>>My suggestion would be PC-DOS 1.0 NG  or NG-DOS 1.0. NG stands for "New
:>>Generation". Feel free to add 386/486/32 Bit etc.
:>Hee hee... here in the U.S., "NG" popularly stands for "No Good".
:>(Some people prefer the amplified term "NFG", with the same F as in "RTFM".)
:
:I've gotten tired of initials, though.  Here are a couple more suggestions
:to keep us rolling along:
:
:Harmony 1.0.  This new operating system, after all, will allow DOS,
:              Windows, and OS/2 programs to operate together harmoniously.
:PC-DOS 6.0.   Microsoft would really get steamed with this one.  They'd have
:              to skip a version number.  Plus it would satisfy all those
:              columnists (who think themselves experts) who thought OS/2
:              was a terrible name.
:
:T.F.S.
:Timothy F. Sipples                              sip1@quads.uchicago.edu

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Here are some name change suggestions...

2112 1.0
YYZ 1.0
OU812 1.0
TFS 1.0   (or the Great TFS 1.0 :)
SIP/1 1.0 (Systems Integration Platform -- or SIPples :)


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