I could supply a rough equivalent, הזה איכפתלי, in Hebrew, but I know very little Yiddish.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of David Spiegel <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 8:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z15 from IBM i perspective Maybe, you could supply the original expression, Chotsh? On 2019-09-23 18:28, Seymour J Metz 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%7Cac626ebb1afb4247665608d740757243%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637048745527292386&sdata=r2SOqQNRVpB4yAxTR%2FeCjZUw0RFjYBIyo%2BZTOt%2B73pE%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 > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
