In the opening crawl for the original release of Star Wars not only did not say "A New Hope", it also did not say Episode IV.
See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRIUiyF0N4 Frank > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:52:01 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Compile error > To: [email protected] > > And then there was Star Wars (AKA: A New Hope [which was added when > the film was rereleased as part of the release of The Empire Strikes > Back]) which opened with a crawl saying Episode 4". That was just > because they were emulating the old serials where each segment was a > numbered Chapter with its own title (which often reflected the > cliffhanger being resolved or the plot point of that chapter). > > > At 09:57 -0800 on 01/22/2016, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Compile error: > > >It's Friday, right? After the release of Mel Brooks' History of the World > >Part I, he was often asked when we could expect to see Part II. He claimed > >never to have intended a Part II. Then why call it Part I? Because that > >qualifier is almost never used. The first one is called Name; the next one > >is Name II or Name Part 2. If you think about our biz, we do the same thing. > >We name all sorts of elements and components such that the first one gets a > >vanilla name; the next one--usually not contemplated in the original > >design--gets various kinds of qualifications. The idea of naming the very > >first one with a 'two' is fallout from modern marketing obfuscation, where > >ordinary logic is irrelevant or downright inimical. > > > >. > >. > >. > >J.O.Skip Robinson > >Southern California Edison Company > >Electric Dragon Team Paddler > >SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > >323-715-0595 Mobile > >[email protected] > >[email protected] > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > >> On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex > >> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 09:05 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [Bulk] Re: Compile error > >> > >> Probably just an old fairy tale, but I was told long ago that DB2 came > >about as a > >> name because IBM already had IMS so the 2 in DB2 was to distinguish it as > >> being IBM's second DBMS offering. > >> > >> Rex > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > >> On Behalf Of Skip Robinson > >> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 10:51 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Compile error > >> > >> The name 'DB2' seems to have followed the 1980s tradition of what I call > >'name > >> bloat', the practice of inflating a moniker in one way or another to make > >a > >> product look more mature or more elegant. The paragon in my mind was > >> dBASE II from Ashton-Tate. There never was a plain old dBASE. The roman > >> numeral was added from the get-go to make the product seem new and > >> improved. > >> Moreover, there was never an 'Ashton'. That name was invented because, > >gosh > >> darn it, it sounded good hyphenated with Tate, a real person. > >> > >> Before DB2 there was precedent for name bloat within IBM. There never was > >a > >> plain old 'JES'. The product emerged from the cocoon as JES2. There had > >been a > >> predecessor product called 'HASP', which may or may not have been an > >> acronym for Houston Automatic Spooling Priority, but the name 'J-E-S' was > >> born complete with suffix. > >> > >> Meanwhile there did emerge a 'JES3', but it was not an evolutionary > >> descendant of JES2. Both products have coexisted, albeit uneasily, for > >decades. > >> We used to imagine a JES5 or JES6 (depending on one's arithmetic > >> proclivity) that would somehow combine the best features of both products, > >> but it's almost certainly DOA. Likewise, the prospects for a 'DB3' are as > >dim as a > >> distant star. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
