Hi Arthur, Thank you, always open to history lessons ๐ Didn't mean to attempt to give an actual explanation as such.. was just thinking of it in a comical sense, that's all.
โ Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Arthur Fichtl Sent: 27 January 2019 13:11 To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: how many OSes run on IBMz BS = bull $hit Meaning,.. one is talking meaningless, foolish, s#it. So either BS or horse s#it. Seeing a name like BS2000 or BS3000 made me think of a hypothetical marketing department where their product is so useless, but they proudly sell it, by naming it BS2000. They call the new and improved version BS3000. It's like how the wall street laughs at the rest of the world when they name things CDOs, etc. Sure, CDO has a normal meaning but I'm sure some guy in a suit somewhere knows its *real* expanded name (inside joke). โ Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure Vignesh, thatโs not correct. As I worked (in an earlier life) both with BS2000 and BS3000 I could enlight you: Beginning 1966 Siemens/Germany started with manufacturing Computers whose design was developed by RCA (USA). It was named BS1000 and was similar to the IBM/360 (but not identical). When IBM started selling the /370 machines which where equipped with a virtual memory hardware architecture and ran the successor Operating System named OS/VS, Siemens began to produce its own Hardware and developed an OS called BS2000, as well equipped with virtual memory. Regarding the /370 you might want to have a look to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370 BS3000 was marketed by Siemens (its original name was FACOM and the manufacturer was Fujitsu). It had no relations to BS2000. It was sort of Clone of MVS and IBM sued Fujitsu for copyright infringement; there were rumors that IBM demanded (and received) 1 billion US$ from Fujitsu which implied also that the Japanese company was allowed to sell their machines in the domestic market. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN MARKSANDSPENCER.COM ________________________________ Unless otherwise stated above: Marks and Spencer plc Registered Office: Waterside House 35 North Wharf Road London W2 1NW Registered No. 214436 in England and Wales. Telephone (020) 7935 4422 Facsimile (020) 7487 2670 www.marksandspencer.com Please note that electronic mail may be monitored. This e-mail is confidential. If you received it by mistake, please let us know and then delete it from your system; you should not copy, disclose, or distribute its contents to anyone nor act in reliance on this e-mail, as this is prohibited and may be unlawful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
