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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:43811 comp.os.os2.advocacy:12696 alt.startrek.creative:3126
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!usenet
  3. From: rhaig@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Haig)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.startrek.creative
  5. Subject: Re: IBM and Borg analogy
  6. Date: 24 Jan 1993 06:16:35 GMT
  7. Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
  8. Lines: 25
  9. Distribution: comp
  10. Message-ID: <1jtc83INNqbg@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
  11. References: <SHABBY.93Jan23104941@deathtongue.mit.edu>
  12. NNTP-Posting-Host: tramp.cc.utexas.edu
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  15. In article <SHABBY.93Jan23104941@deathtongue.mit.edu> you write:
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  17. >We are IBM.
  18. >Downsizing is irrelevant.
  19. >Client-server is irrelevant.
  20. >You will be assimilated.
  21. >Mainframes will preva*KABOOM*.
  22. >
  23. >I am Hugh.  I am now IBM.
  24. >Meet OS/2.  
  25.  
  26. That's actually very interesting.  The IBM internal name for the 2.1beta code
  27. is BORG.  This makes for some very interesting ideas....
  28.  
  29. Or you could take it a face value (someone that makes up these names is a TNG 
  30. fan).  Especially when you consider that the service pack was/is called RIKER.
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  35. --
  36. Robert Haig            |    "Stand back ma'am, I'm a professional!
  37. Technician/Network Admin    |     What does this switch do again?"
  38. UT Residence Halls         |        -- unknown (unemployed) consultant
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