[Info-vax] Naming, was: Re: vmstailor

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-02-27, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2016-02-26, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> With TCP/IP V5 the name is TCP/IP, not UCX.  Still has some UCX logicals for 
>> Steve's dreaded compatibility.  Some people still use the old name and logicals. 
>>   I prefer the new name and logicals.
>>
>
> And many people still say VMS instead of OpenVMS...
>
> Think of it as a way of carbon dating the length of someone's involvement
> with a product. :-)

Those of us who experienced UCX V3.n might (and do) prefer to wipe the
name from our collective memories :-)

> OTOH, it can be confusing to newcomers who only know the current name
> and don't know the history. For example, I was pulled up the other week
> for still referring to AdaCore as ACT (it's old name) on the basis that
> it could be confusing to Ada newcomers and that person did have a point.

True.  Likewise when I came up with the 'socat' incantation for
connecting to the AlphaVM emulator console, the more experienced Unix
hands here started talking about 'netcat', which is actually invoked via
the 'nc' command.

> However, this whole having to instantly switch to the new name and never
> use the old one isn't a natural thing to do. If it was, then why do most
> people around here only ever say VMS instead of OpenVMS ?

Because we knew that the "Open" prefix was mainly marketing?
Ducks... :-)

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