Ted MacNeil wrote: >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? It's an analogy. Read up on it. Take a basic logic course. >PS: a few others have pointed out that MVS is still an essential component of z/OS. Precisely: they aren't the same thing. Thank you for making my point. >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. Wow. Did you even read what I wrote? That's what I analyzed. >PPPS: I found my spell checker accepts both spellings of n/s. Great. Get a real spell checker. Not even in Canada is it spelled as you suggest. Usage evolves, but not like that. >PPPPS: I really do NOT to argue this trivia! I think you the verb, probably "want". Nor I. You're the one who responded to a valid comment on a book with a statement that suggested that because you still call it "MVS", calling current hardware by an obsolete name was somehow reasonable. Now *that* is, arguably, a straw man. ...phsiii (done with this) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
