ObPedant "I could care less?" "I could care less." is the result of translating an ironic question in Yiddish into a meaningless statement in English, probably because somebody had a tin ear and didn't pick up on the inflection indicating that it was a question.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Phil Smith III <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z15 from IBM i perspective Charles Mills wrote: >Interesting article even if you could care less about the IBM i (AS/400 for >anyone who has been living under a rock for the past 20 years). "couldn't care less" :) BTW, just to be irritatingly pedantic: IBM i is not really AS/400. It's what AS/400 developed into, but it refers to the current generation of the AS/400 OS (formerly OS/400) running on IBM Power. From Wikipedia: IBM i is an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM PureSystems. It was named OS/400 when it was introduced with the AS/400 line of computer systems in 1988, was later renamed i5/OS, and was renamed IBM i in 2008 when IBM Power Systems was introduced. So it's confusing, because "AS/400" begat "iSeries" begat "System i" begat "IBM i", only IBM i implies "on Power", whereas the others imply "on bespoke hardware". Sort of as if Apple had renamed Mac OS to macOS when they went to Intel hardware (which is not when they did that). This doesn't really matter nowadays, since anything old enough to be pre-Power is very obsolete, but it's sorta interesting. I find that customers still say "AS/400"; none of the "i" names appear to have ever really caught on. Related: It's "IBM Power", not "PowerPC". PowerPC is the very old precursor to the current generation; this is much like saying your shiny new ThinkPad has a 386-it's sorta kinda in the neighborhood, but really just wrong. Signed, Mr. Pedantic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
