Tom Marchant wrote, re:

>>On an i system (don't get me started on that choice of a name for an
operating system....)

 

>Ok, I'll stir the pot.  What's wrong with iSeries or System i?

 

Nothing, except that those names are long dead. The System Formerly Known As
AS/400 is called "IBM i" nowadays - a triumph of bad naming in the Internet
era, since it's almost impossible to search on (you get lots of pages saying
"when I worked for IBM I used to." and the like). Just as "zSeries",
"pSeries", and "xSeries" are dead (since 2005!), the System i folks for some
reason decided that "System i" wasn't workable, and must have received a
papal dispensation to deviate from the corporate naming scheme. I find it
quite baffling.

 

.phsiii


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