TONT 31543 Microsoft Access 的名字是怎么来的？

原文链接：https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060413-09/?p=31543

We’ve seen how the names for some Microsoft products had to be changed due to a name conflict. I’m told that the people who had to come up with the name for the database product avoided this pitfall in a clever way: Instead of trying to avoid a name that was already taken, they intentionally used a name that was already taken: By Microsoft itself.

我们已经见识过有一些微软产品的名字因为命名冲突而不得不改名的情况。据说要给一款数据库产品的员工巧妙地避开了这一大坑：没有选择不使用已经被占用的名字，而是恰恰相反选择了一款已经被占用的，（而占用它的不是别人，）正是微软自己。

They discovered that Microsoft had a long-forgotten terminal emulator product called Microsoft Access. “Access” sounded like an appropriate name for a database product, so they blew the dust off it and gave the name a new life.

这些人发现微软有一款被尘封许久的终端模拟器产品叫 Microsoft Access。「Access」一听就是个适合数据库产品的好名字，于是他们就为它掸去尘土，并为这个名字赋予了新生。