That is what an ex-IBMer from the old days told me 'CICS' originally
stood for - before it was renamed as 'Customer Information Control
System' and sold to the rest of the world. I have no supporting evidence
apart from this hearsay.
zMan wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:21 PM, CM Poncelet <ponce...@bcs.org.uk> wrote:
Slight diversion ... but if CICS originally stood for 'Cincinnati
Information Control System' should it not be pronounced SICS? Meanwhile it's
developed at Hursley here in England and we pronounce it KICKS. ;-) Cheers,
Chris Poncelet CA
CM, are you suggesting that was the original name (a la "CMS" originally
being "Cambridge Monitor System" rather than "Conversational")? I hadn't
heard that one. The Google gets no hits, which doesn't prove or disprove it.
I'm certainly not challenging you, just curious: do you have any supporting
evidence? Or were you just being funny, and I'm taking this waaaay too
seriously?
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