J R wrote:
I apologize if I offended any person for whom English
is not their first language. It was certainly not my
intention to do that.
My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist
on using wintel and unix terminology in place of our
well-established vernacular.
It's funny. More and more I find myself referring to storage creep as a
memory leak, TCBs as threads, WAIT/POST as blocking and unblocking,
reIPL as a reboot of the mainframe, etc. Talk to them in words they
understand and ... well ... they'll understand you.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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