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?

Alfredo

P.S.
During a visit to an Adager customer, it was with mixed emotions
that I saw the sign that they had placed above their hp3000, which
was humbly -- and productively -- humming along in a sea of IBM
and Sun hardware and was the only HP remnant after they kicked
out all of their HP-UX boxes:  Alfredosaur.

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