BS = bull $hit
Meaning,.. one is talking meaningless, foolish, s#it. So either BS or
horse s#it.
Seeing a name like BS2000 or BS3000 made me think of a hypothetical
marketing department where their product is so useless, but they proudly
sell it, by naming it BS2000.
They call the new and improved version BS3000.
It's like how the wall street laughs at the rest of the world when they
name things CDOs, etc.
Sure, CDO has a normal meaning but I'm sure some guy in a suit somewhere
knows its *real* expanded name (inside joke).
– Vignesh
Mainframe Infrastructure
Vignesh, that’s not correct.
As I worked (in an earlier life) both with BS2000 and BS3000 I could
enlight you:
Beginning 1966 Siemens/Germany started with manufacturing Computers
whose design was developed by RCA (USA). It was named BS1000 and was
similar to the IBM/360 (but not identical).
When IBM started selling the /370 machines which where equipped with a
virtual memory hardware architecture and ran the successor Operating
System named OS/VS, Siemens began to produce its own Hardware and
developed an OS called BS2000, as well equipped with virtual memory.
Regarding the /370 you might want to have a look to this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
BS3000 was marketed by Siemens (its original name was FACOM and the
manufacturer was Fujitsu). It had no relations to BS2000.
It was sort of Clone of MVS and IBM sued Fujitsu for copyright
infringement; there were rumors that IBM demanded (and received) 1
billion US$ from Fujitsu which implied also that the Japanese company
was allowed to sell their machines in the domestic market.
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