On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 09:08:53 -0500, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is this release in fact to be denominated 2.1? > >Doing so would break with IBM's tradition of beginning the numbering >of new versions with 2.0 and the like (and it would be one more >instance of dumbing down). > No! IBM is following tradition for the OS. There was no dot zero version of MVS/XA V2, ESA V3, ESA V4, OS/390 V1 nor z/OS V1. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
