• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    I too am going to call DNS ‘Dennis’ from now on, lol.

    Yeah I’ve had some discussions over time with the whole SQL vs Sequel thing, and what I realized was that…

    Well basically, I learned ‘Sequel’ from a bunch of old timers in the Seattle area.

    The kind of people who had been writing COBOL since they got back from Vietnam, people who’d actually worked at IBM, still acted like Microsoft was an ‘upstart’, people who’d just offhand tell me about the one time they got ‘deployed’ to Saudi Arabia to flash a compromised BIOS onto hardware destined to be used in Saddam’s air defense network, prior to the Gulf War.

    So, they actually literally were there back when SEQUEL was invented.