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I'd like to believe that (though Business Server doesn't even have the excuse of being in German language) but I can't find anything about that term on the link
by tannhaeuser 5y ago
I'd like to believe that (though Business Server doesn't even have the excuse of being in German language) but I can't find anything about that term on the linked Wikipedia page.
- merlinscholz 5y agoCheck the BS2000 logo in the top right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS2000#/media/File:BS2000.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS2000#/media/File:BS2000.png
- dirkt 5y agoIt's extremely unlikely that Siemens used a name like "Business Server" in the 70s. My guess would be that it originally did mean "Betriebssystem", and the "Business Server" was coined a lot later for the non-German-speaking part of the world. And have a look at [1], if you compare "PBS" (Platte Betriebssystem) to "BS 1000", both running on a 4004-45, it would be really really strange if this "BS" meant "Business Server" in 1968. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Siemens-Computer https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Siemens-Computer
- tannhaeuser 5y agoIt never occurred to me that BS would mean anything other than Betriebssystem considering the naming scheme of main competitor IBM (OS/390, OS/400) but that logo I didn't notice tells otherwise, so TIL. Still, the logo looks bland and generic, the kind of which a developer would use for his home project, so I'm still not 100% convinced ;)