It sounds more emphatic in Yiddish: "Nu, Vu Den?!" On 2019-09-23 18:57, Seymour J Metz wrote: > What else? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb9862a1cb26442eb200c08d74079814c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637048762965936071&sdata=9iDcSDFxX1cFk%2F9X%2FLOE%2BtHy2JjWd9QGAIzW3D9leso%3D&reserved=0 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > zMan <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 6:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z15 from IBM i perspective > > So you're saying it was translated...carelessly? > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:29 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb9862a1cb26442eb200c08d74079814c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637048762965936071&sdata=9iDcSDFxX1cFk%2F9X%2FLOE%2BtHy2JjWd9QGAIzW3D9leso%3D&reserved=0 >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > . >
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