In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/22/2007
   at 03:43 PM, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>I'm all for correct terminology and precise communication, but in
>this case it sounds like this is more of a TLA collision than an
>"incorrect" term per se.

IBM maintains a list of official acronyms. That makes this more than a
simple collision.

>In any case, and at the risk of retreading old ground, I'd like to
>know what the official short form of z/OS UNIX System Services is. 

Generally z/OS Unix, but there's an address space whose name is an
older abbreviation, OMVS.

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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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