Back in 2000-2002, I worked in my native England, so it was 'zed oh ess' Then I moved to an American-based company & it took me two years switch that to "zee oh ess". A few years after that, I moved back to a UK employer & thought "here we go again...". These days I've compromised on 'zos'
John -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: 16 September 2016 17:32 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do you say "z/OS"? In article <35f7ced8-7f18-43dd-995b-170e28d2a...@googlegroups.com> you wrote: > On Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 2:00:29 PM UTC-4, Mike Martin wrote: > > Is it.. zoss? > > > > Is it.. zee? > > > > Is it zee...oh...esss? > > > > Something else? > > > > Sorry if this has already been beat to death, but I am just curious how > > everyone is saying it... > Hi, I called IBM today from their z/OS website. The IBM agent said > "zed oh ess" or zed OS, or z/OS. The final believable word. ...:-) Poor Mike has been waiting 15 years for this answer. :) -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive sas...@sas.com (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
