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They're probably referring to IBM. It's an old term, but it checks out.
by kevindamm 3y ago
They're probably referring to IBM. It's an old term, but it checks out.
- jyunwai 3y agoThe term did come back a bit in 2014 with the great television series "Halt and Catch Fire." The metonymy of "Big Blue" was regularly used in the series (especially in the pilot) to describe IBM as a huge entity that a forcefully-made new division of a smaller company was competing against, to develop a personal computer in the 1980s. This scene in the pilot about a salesman trying to convince another company's executives to choose his products over IBM's describes the feeling behind the term very well: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XOR8mk0tLpc&t=65 https://youtube.com/watch?v=XOR8mk0tLpc&t=65
- stevenAthompson 3y agoI believe that Bill Joy famously once refered to it as the Big Blue Dinosaur (ala Barney). I think the more general term "Big Blue" came before "Dinosaur" was appended.