On Monday, 10/14/2019 at 04:57 GMT, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote: > Shoulda been 's390z'. IIRC it was decided less than a year before the > mainframe got rebranded to 'z'.
Think of s390x and "s390 with extensions", a la 370/XA. The external marketing term "z/Architecture" was very late. Based on the internal technical name of the architecture, I would suggest just taking the "x" and running with it. Personally, I think they should have added 30 more degrees (360+10=370, 370+20=390, 390+30=420) and had S/420, but that's weird and too easily confused with AS/400. So add 110 degrees and make it S/500? Eeew. I know, right? Gotta have the '3'? So maybe just add 1 and have S/391. Drats. Can't have an odd number, so S/392. Eeew**2. No wonder they called it "z/Architecture". Why number it when you can name it? Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services IBM Z Delivery Practice ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
