Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/1999/01/08/when_all_the_d_ux/

When all the D/UX are thirty-two bit, we'll have the new name

The dog will be sent into the pond

By Mike Magee

Posted in On-Prem, 8th January 1999 17:10 GMT

OK, so we know that Compaq will change the name of Digital Unix on the first of February. It's all getting a bit Katmai-like, isn't it? However, it now appears that DEC -- oops Tandem -- oops Compaq is spending a fistful of money with marketing consultancies who have two favourites in the running. The first is Tru Cluster, faintly redolent of after shave lotion, Tandem technology and a bunch of bananas, while the second is 64 bits. Our correspondent tells us that a better name for D/UX would be Digital Unix... ®