I don't remember where I heard this, or even I really did hear this, but immediately, ""Next" jumped to the front of my brain. zNext - NextZ. It could be real, it could just a hallucination.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Dyck, Lionel <[email protected]> wrote: > Or you can consider the EC10/EC12 as ECyy so at this point the next EC > would be EC14 if it were to come out this year. > > Just my $0.01 to add to the discussion > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > BMC Software > Product Development Lead, Common Install and Services > 10431 Morado Circle, Building 5, Austin, Texas 78759 > Office Phone: 512-340-6031 (extension x26031) > E-Mail: [email protected] > "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of zMan > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Beyond the EC12 > > The z196/z114 names were just plain confusing, so yeah, I'd assume they > wouldn't do that. If they were going to have an aberration, they should > have done that for 13. > > Let's see, z10EC/BC, zEC12/zBC12...maybe z1EC3/z1BC3 to hide the "13"?! > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 4/25/2014 8:09 AM, Klein, Kenneth E wrote: > > > >> Has anyone heard any good rumors about what will be coming out next > >> year as the latest and greatest model? > >> z296? > >> Ec14? > >> > > > > You bring up an interest point to contemplate as IBM eventually > > considers official names for its 13th-generation machine (if and when > > such a thing is produced). > > > > Is there still enough superstition about the number '13' that they > > will avoid using it and come up with something completely different? > > Or will they stick with EC13/BC13? > > > > For the record, I consider it unlikely that they will leap ahead to '14' > > and be out-of-sync forever more. > > > > I also believe the chances close to 'nil' that they will reduce from > > 120 cores on EC12 back down to 96 for the next generation, making any > > name ending in '96' not worthy of consideration. > > > > -- > > Edward E Jaffe > > Phoenix Software International, Inc > > 831 Parkview Drive North > > El Segundo, CA 90245 > > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
