On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:21 PM, CM Poncelet <[email protected]> wrote:
> Slight diversion ... but if CICS originally stood for 'Cincinnati > Information Control System' should it not be pronounced SICS? Meanwhile it's > developed at Hursley here in England and we pronounce it KICKS. ;-) Cheers, > Chris Poncelet CA > CM, are you suggesting that was the original name (a la "CMS" originally being "Cambridge Monitor System" rather than "Conversational")? I hadn't heard that one. The Google gets no hits, which doesn't prove or disprove it. I'm certainly not challenging you, just curious: do you have any supporting evidence? Or were you just being funny, and I'm taking this waaaay too seriously? -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
