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I don’t doubt any of what you say. I have this opinions because I worked at IBM MANY years ago and saw a product list and it was almost all two or three letter
by DougN7 2y ago
I don’t doubt any of what you say. I have this opinions because I worked at IBM MANY years ago and saw a product list and it was almost all two or three letters / number. AND there was a _committee_ created with coming up with these oh so unique names!
PS/1 PS/2 AS/400 System/3 System/36 System/360
I love it :)
- skissane 2y agoIt really represented a certain historical period of IBM naming conventions – that originated with the IBM System/360 (before which IBM computers generally had numeric model numbers, e.g., for high-end mainframes, the vacuum tube IBM 70x series and its 707x transistorised successors), and ended in the early 2000s as IBM switched to radically different nomenclature (first the z/i/p/x Series, then z/i/p/x Systems). But, back in those days, many other vendors emulated those IBM style naming conventions (ACRONYM/DIGITS, etc). Nowadays, they look old-fashioned and overly technical, the kind of branding most marketing people would recommend against. Most of them weren't recommending against it 40 years ago (well, ignoring they are by and large two different sets of people – marketing juniors 40 years ago are nearing retirement now, many of the seniors are already dead)