I said MVS. You said Model-T vs Taurus as a misrepresentation of what I said: what's the difference?
If that's not a strawman, what is it? PS: a few others have pointed out that MVS is still an essential component of z/OS. PPS: I think your analysis of the manuals is flawed. Try just looking at the z/OS ones for a specific release (say 1.12). How many have MVS in the title? I can name two. One validates the usage of the term. PPPS: I found my spell checker accepts both spellings of n/s. PPPPS: I really do NOT to argue this trivia! - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -----Original Message----- From: Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:22:02 To: <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Subject: Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe? Ted MacNeil wrote: >I never said that! >Hence, nonsequitor! >Or worse: strawman. OK, so what were you suggesting? That's how I interpreted what you said. I asked you to elucidate; "I never said that" really doesn't do so. I'd really *like* to grok what you're saying. As I noted, what I wrote was meant as an analogy. That doesn't make it a non sequitur (two words, note spelling). I certainly did not intend to introduce a straw man argument. So again: please elucidate? -- .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
