I didn't know POWER was an acronym - and of course the first hit I got on it was "Priority Output Writers, Execution processors and input Readers" which was from the old DOS/360 days. It took me a while to find the more current meaning - Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Alleged mainframe breach to add to the list Dana Mitchell wrote: >The offical name now is 'IBM i for Power Systems'. Current IBM Power8 >hardware can run IBM i, AIX and Linux LPARs all concurrently under PowerVM on >machines from a 2u rack mounted server all the way up to Enterprise level E880 >with 192 cores (8xSMT) and 32TB of memory. Also, IBM now offers lower cost, >Linux only 'L' models of some of these machines. >http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/index.html?LNK=browse *tsk* And that page gets it wrong-POWER is an acronym, should always be capped. In the old days, IBM had trademark police who would have fixed that! As Dana noted, the platform formerly known as AS/400 (never AS400, as the Verizon report has it) has been rebranded repeatedly: AS/400 iSeries System i IBM i for POWER Systems (or just "IBM i") and soon probably just a symbol [I tried to send the Prince symbol here but the list rejected it] And here we thought "System/360" to "System/370" to "System/390" to "zSeries" to "System z" to "z Systems" was confusing! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
