On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:11:56 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote: >So .... >IBM obviously couldn't use the z11 name and so the marketing intelligentsia >came up with that marvellous ploy to fill the gap. > >Let's hope they have dibs on the next few iterations of z<number>, so we can >avoid this farce again in future. > Who cares!?
"What's in a name? ..." -- WS Actually, some things. IBM didn't understand that the output of "uname -s" is customarily used as an API by UNIX scripts when they changed it from "OS/390" to "z/OS". But IBM relented, and "uname" now says we're at OS/390 1.23. And even "OS/390" has problems; the solidus breaks GNU autoconfigure. IBM does not much care to play well with others. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
