On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:37:36 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote:

>While I don't believe there was ever 64-bit System/390 hardware, the Linux 
>"arch" name for the 64-bit z/Architecture was named s390x, for better or worse.
> 
There may be greater value in diachronic of names than synchronic.
The change from S/390 to z/OS broke GNU Configure,  IBM relented
and made the next version of OMVS S/390 with an unusually high release
number.

The '/' remained an irritant in generated UNIX pathnames.

-- gil

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