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<Maryellen>
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Do you have any trivia or humorous stories regarding FOCUS 25 years ago?

For example: What release was out in 1981? or How has FOCUS changed in the last 25 years?

Carol Dobson is compiling this information in preparation for the New England FOCUS User Group's 25th anniversary and could really use some help!

So please email your trivia, stories, and suggestions to CDobson@BabsonCapital.com

Thanks!

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susannah
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Chris Boylan does.
He wrote the focus trivia slides for the Summit General Session this year.
Here's one:
What does WORP stand for?



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Adolf Mergulhao
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WORP

Having not seen that word before is it :-

wireless outdoor router protocol


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Francis Mariani
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Tricky one, that.

Apparently an old acronym for B.I.D.

"WebFOCUS Open Reporting Portal".


Francis


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FrankDutch
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how about this one

how many floppies (the big ones) did you need to load the PC-Focus software version 4.

(I do not know the answer anymore, but it was a lot)

Frank




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Kathleen Butler
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Hi there - Interested in the Focal Point Tip and Technique contest?
 
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FrankDutch
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yes Kathleen, but still thinking of a worthfull tip.




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Håkan
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Frank,

I'm not sure, but if I remember correctly, there was a pile of 12 or 13 floppies.

Håkan


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hammo1j
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I remember in 1984 a FOCUS writing colleague going off to work for an RDBMS company in Reading called Oracle.

I said that RDBMS'es would never take off because they were an unrealistic and inefficient simplification of an application's data structure, but, hey, look what happened - think he even had share options.

Despite that, recently I had the opportunity to do some DBAing for an Oracle Datawarehouse and I swear they'd have still been better off 20 years down the line loading the stuff up as XFOCUS.


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<Chacha>
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Here is one for you ... What was FML originally called?
 
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How about EMR (Extended Matrix Reporting)?


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Håkan
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EMR was a late invention. It started off as SML (Small Modelling Language). After that it became FML, which was replaced by EMR.


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Jessica Bottone
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I have one for you.... What came before EDA?


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Håkan
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Jessica, that must have been Focnet.

Håkan


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stuey
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Hakan,

FRL was in there somewhere too.


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