Ed I would have thought you would have understood the position from my earlier post.
> IBM should IMO do a 360 and say USS means unformatted system services. IBM should stay exactly where it is, veer not one degree off course, and stick to the following - which I obviously have to post in full - again: <quote> unformatted system service (USS) A communications function that translates a character-coded command, such as a LOGON or LOGOFF command, into a field-formatted command for processing by formatted system services. See also formatted system service. ... USS See unformatted system service. </quote> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/u.html#x2042481 > FWIW the UNIX people are usurping the acronym and are playing the elephant in the room here. Indeed. This is where Dave Gibney's devotional exclamations should be appended! Chris Mason On Mon, 2 May 2011 15:36:23 -0700, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Ed: > Becareful you will start up another war. >I think it is a problem that IBM can decide and clarify quite nicely. IBM >should IMO do a 360 and say USS means unformatted system services. My rather poor memory says unformatted was in use before Unix came into general use. FWIW the UNIX people are usurping the acronym and are playing the elephant in the room here. > >Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
