Ah Nebach! On 2019-09-24 17:23, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I could supply a rough equivalent, הזה איכפתלי, in Hebrew, but I know very > little Yiddish. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb6fecf5e0b7d4f5a661708d7413581cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637049570405050380&sdata=pP%2BNIrS8peLsUBp5XE9KbE6q4U%2FMQ6E0o%2BEMwvQCcHE%3D&reserved=0 > > > ________________________________________ > 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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb6fecf5e0b7d4f5a661708d7413581cc%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637049570405050380&sdata=pP%2BNIrS8peLsUBp5XE9KbE6q4U%2FMQ6E0o%2BEMwvQCcHE%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 > . >
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