On Wed, 4 May 2011 18:33:27 +0200, Thomas Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as ugly. >Especially for z/OS. Would in such a case prefer something like "ZUNIX", "UNIZ" >or "ZUX" ;). > How soon we forget. Openedition existed for MVS/ESA 4.3 and MVS/ESA 5.1 and 5.2. It was later rename to Unix System Services under OS/390 long before "z" hardware and z/OS were ever dreamed of as a name for the 64-bit hardware and OS. What would you have called it under OS/390 to have short meaningful abbreviation? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
