Stephen Lindholm wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

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

Precisely!

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

It is quasi-official policy.  My favorite was "OS/2 2.1 for
Windows," which provided the same functionality without having to pay
the Windows royalty to Microsoft: the project code name was
"Ferengi."  OS/2 2.1 itself, which integrated support for Windows
3.1 and enhanced mode, was "Borg."

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


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