> My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist on using wintel and unix > terminology in place of our well-established vernacular.
Giggle. Wasn''t it IBM that stole the term "dataset" (which had previously - 1950s/1960s - meant a modem) and used it as a synonym for file, much to many people's irritation? How short memories are. Just a few decades. And UNIX is older than MVS, BTW. There's always: Someone who speaks three or more languages - a polyglot. Someone who speaks two languages - bilingual. Someone who speaks only one language - an American. Actually, it's trite and quite unfair. A lot of English-speaking Americans have competency in Spanish and relatively few Britons speak even French. (Completely bilingual in German, competent in French, laughable in Japanese despite a whole year learning it in Frankfurt, taught in German. And the Lord knows how many "computer languages", now subsuming into Object REXX. What else do you need?) -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
