[email protected] (John Gilmore) writes: > The U.S. Customs Service defines an antique artefact as something that > is at least 50 years old, and I z/OS is identified with is antetype, > OS/360, it is or will shortly be an antique. > > Now 'antique' and 'antiquated' are closely related etymologically; but > 'antiquated' is pejorative. To antiquate is to make obsolete, and I > am not sure that z/OS is obsolete.
antique vehicle registration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique_vehicle_registration ranges 20-35yrs. automobiles could be considered more analogous to computers. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
