[Info-vax] Other VMS logos?

[rdpiccard at gmail.com]

On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 8:17:32 AM UTC-5, dodecah... at gmail.com wrote:
> What do people think about other vms logos?
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> I know we have the spirally thing that vsi I believe cleverly added x86 to but I was thinking more along the lines of a creature that people would associate vms by
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> THE V|M|S logo I think is good but it's mostly only recognizable to those who were already familiar with the old DIGITAL wording 
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> I know we have the shark but it looks dated and rather menacing actually, the way some of the configuration stuff is in vms the shark in it's current form might be misinterpreted as something biting you in he arse lol
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> Linux has the penguin and lots of opensource stuff has animals like hadoop and it's elephant etc
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> Should we revamp the shark and make him more friendly or pick another animal?
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> The Phoenix is nice but it still is associated with something rising from the ashes so I'm not totally convinced it's the best mascot going forward
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> I like Athena as a symbol but the owl isn't my choice, it's lacking the strength part
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> Hermes is another with a great meaning and Zeus as the lightning bolt is a bit too simplistic
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> I guess my research into family crsts of late has got me thinning about logo's etc for vms
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> What do you think would be some good ones ?

I was fond of the cheshire cat logo that the old DECUS Pageswapper used; as I recall, the reference was to the VMS boot process, where the boot loader faded away when it was done.

see   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/WvfpEffHgfI

and a rendition:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.people.vcu.edu/~agnew/MVAX/ALBERT_LOGO.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.people.vcu.edu/~agnew/MVAX/MVAX_FAQ.HTML&h=164&w=136&tbnid=IdW9Q6iyIsQX4M:&zoom=1&docid=I_JzxqFJwiYyWM&ei=xcz0VPWMBMG6UZOJgKgL&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CCEQMygAMAA