---- Original Message ----
From: "F. Alfredo Rego" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:04 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] The Crisis of Computing's Dying Breed

> In a private communication, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>> Alfredo writes:
>>>  The recently released and most powerful IBM mainframe
>>>   yet, dubbed T-Rex, is capable of handling entire e-business
>>  >  operations.

> Thanks for the credit, Wirt, but I didn't write that.  I just
> followed your example and did a copy/paste operation.
>> I'm surprised that Alfredo didn't mention anything about IBM's new
>> mainframe name, given that it has an Alfredo-like cleverness about
>> it.
> My nickname is "Mr. Subtle" and I try to live up to it :-)

>> It's called "T-Rex," simply in response to so many people saying that
>> mainframes are dinosaurs -- which I think is a fine way of saying
>> "so's your old man" back at them.
> Good "reading between the lines", Wirt.  In Spanish, we say:
> "Viejo es el mar, pero produce pescado fresco".

> Translations to other languages (the more the merrier), anyone?

In English we say "There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle".

> Alfredo

At the dinosaur theme park, a young couple were enjoying a quiet canoodle
behind one of the exhibits when one of the attendants disturbed them.
Looking rather warm and dishevelled, they slipped away into the undergrowth,
just as old couple Sam and Martha were arriving to look at the model.

"What's that one called then, Sam?" said Martha. Sam squinted, but couldn't
read the sign. "Well, I don't rightly know", he said, "But according to that
young couple who went by in such a golderned hurry, I reckon it's a
Jathinkysaurus"...

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