John McKown writes: >Obviously z/OS is more advanced than UNIX. Why? Because z/OS >contains UNIX (and is so branded, officially, by X/Open). So, >if one thing contains another thing as a proper subset, then, >the supersetting thing must be superior to the thing which it >is a superset. Right? <grin>.
Your logic is impeccable. No grin needed. I get agitated when people say things like "z/OS versus UNIX." (IBMers included.) Or, even more absurdly, "Mainframe versus UNIX." That just doesn't make any sense: z/OS *is* UNIX(TM). The correct way to say that is "z/OS versus other UNIXes" or "z/OS versus distributed UNIX." Moreover, for the record, there are 3 UNIXes currently available for System z machines: z/OS, UTS, and OpenSolaris for System z.. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
