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Title: Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 09, 2004, 01:47:04 pm

I've been sort of wondering...

"Yet Another something somethig" maybe?

While I'm at it. "J River"? does it refer to a river (the canoe logo would make me think so...) or to a person such as maybe "Joseph River"?

So many questions today. Too much time on my hands... With the tail end of Hurricane Frances hitting us in Montreal, it's raining cats and dogs so I've been on the computer most of day...

:-)

Michel.

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: JustinChase on September 09, 2004, 01:52:09 pm

I 'think' it stands for "You And Betty Boop"

or perhaps, "Yugoslovian Ancestors Beat Box"

or even, "Yards of Accessorized British Bands"

But, I'm not really sure.

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 09, 2004, 02:00:30 pm

Too funny!

Funny thing, I decided to go see the www.jriver.com web site to try find an answer. We never get to see that one since we connect to musicex.com for MC information...

I was shocked to find out that they have been doing terminal emulation since 1982.

The reason I'm shocked is that I have been involved in the terminal emulation business since 1982 also!

Michel.

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: John Gateley on September 09, 2004, 02:38:15 pm

Hi Michel,

At the bottom of this page, you should see a link to "YABB SE". Clicking on that link will explain the mystery.

What kind of stuff with terminal emulation?

j

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: zeltak on September 09, 2004, 02:44:27 pm

one mystery solved yet what about the "j.river" name  ;)


 ;D

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 09, 2004, 02:46:47 pm

Quote from: John Gateley on September 09, 2004, 02:38:15 pm

What kind of stuff with terminal emulation?

Thank John.

I worked for Hummingbird, NetManage, Wall Data over the years. I guess Hummingbird would have been a little closest to your terminal emulation market. But they were stronger in the X Window market than in the UNIX terninal emulation.

M.

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 09, 2004, 02:50:01 pm

Oups, I guess I didn't answer the question completely...

I was invlved in all sorts of terminal emulations: 3270 (IBM mainframes), 5250 (AS/400s), VTxxx, Burroughs, Web-to Host.... Pretty much all of them really :-)

M.

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: pank2002 on September 09, 2004, 03:11:06 pm

Then what's YADB?

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: KingSparta on September 09, 2004, 03:12:56 pm

Quote

Then what's YADB?

Yet Another Data Base

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: JimH on September 09, 2004, 03:51:54 pm

Quote from: zeltak on September 09, 2004, 02:44:27 pm

one mystery solved yet what about the "j.river" name  ;)


 ;D

J as in Jim, River as in Mississippi (we're one block west of it).

Title: Re:Silly question: What doees YABB stand for?
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 09, 2004, 03:57:00 pm

Quote from: JimH on September 09, 2004, 03:51:54 pm

J as in Jim, River as in Mississippi (we're one block west of it).

I knew there had to be a simple story behind the name! Thanks Jim.

Michel.