Hello Mike!

06 Jun 95 05:43, Mike Bilow wrote to Stephen Lindholm:

 MB> Stephen Lindholm wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB>> IBM is emulating the Win32 API.  The project is known,
 MB>> appropriately, as "Dax."

 SL>> Dax? Am I to make a very big stretch to a certain character
 SL>> in Star Trek with a creature inside of another?

 MB> Precisely!

 SL>> What is it with Star Trek names and IBM? :)

And to add to this, there have been various projects code named 'Data',
"Geordi", "Enterprise", and the such.  These have been
for various release levels and the last is now known as
"Connect".  I expect a release called "Voyager"
someday.

 MB> It is quasi-official policy.  My favorite was "OS/2 2.1 for
 MB> Windows," which provided the same functionality without having to
 MB> pay the Windows royalty to Microsoft: the project code name was
 MB> "Ferengi."

Sorta like them, too. (The Ferengi that is.)

 MB>  OS/2 2.1 itself, which integrated support for Windows
 MB> 3.1 and enhanced mode, was "Borg."

And worked like them, too.  It was the best release of OS/2 to date. 
Connect should be the next best thing.

 MB> Rumor has it that the Star Trek names were originally started at
 MB> the famous meeting where IBM engineers finally found out that
 MB> Microsoft's project for the "new OS/2" would support the Windows
 MB> API rather than the OS/2 API, eventually becoming NT.
 MB> Supposedly, what was interpreted by IBM as Microsoft's act of
 MB> duplicity led to the code name for what became OS/2 2.0:
 MB> "Klingon."

Yep.  And that was the most famous name used to date.  Any way, this was
discussed about two months ago on the TeamOS2 echo.

James

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