I does and it doesn't. No one could claim that z/OS was an initialism for zero-down-time operating system.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Bishop Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 6:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ask the experts about running things I went to an IBM buzzfest at the rename announcement (390 to z IIRC, it was a while back) where it was said that z stood for "zero down time". Peter On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 16:09:25 -0800, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >Good thing it was before the days of z/OS. What does the z in z/OS stand for? >AFAIK "zarchitecture" is not an English word. > >Charles > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of scott Ford >Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:20 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Ask the experts about running things > >God, I love it. Buzz words, after 40 yrs you heard many it not all. >I have been mentoring two guys and have hit these ...it gets weird when you >talk from a sysprog/dev point of view >and try to explain it to newbies .. > >Regards, >Scott > >On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:58 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I hired a tech writer once who had been taught in school that you should >> introduce every acronym the first time you used it: >> >> "Whizbang/390 runs on any current release of Multiple Virtual Systems >> (MVS) ..." > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
