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> Aside from IBM's odd marketing ("Get Warped" ?!?!?) IBM originally decided to call OS/2 3.0 “Warp” as in “warp speed”, and market the OS with a Star Trek lik
by ndiddy 4y ago
> Aside from IBM's odd marketing ("Get Warped" ?!?!?)
IBM originally decided to call OS/2 3.0 “Warp” as in “warp speed”, and market the OS with a Star Trek like theme, but forgot to run this by Paramount before announcing the name. Paramount wouldn’t give them permission and the name was already public so IBM had to settle with using “warp” as in “bent or twisted” rather than “extremely fast” like I’m sure they would have preferred.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171029031903/https://www.insearchofstupidity.com/ch6.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20171029031903/https://www.insea...
- jhbadger 4y agoThey should have used the third definition of "warp" in relation to weaving. As the Web was just starting to become big at the time maybe they could have done a "Weave a web" marketing campaign.
- Apocryphon 4y agoOS/2 4.0 “Weft”