On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 18:33:27 +0200, Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> > wrote: > >>FWIW, I have always considered a use of USS as a name for a UNIX system as > ugly. >>Especially for z/OS. Would in such a case prefer something like "ZUNIX", > "UNIZ" >>or "ZUX" ;). >> > > How soon we forget. Openedition existed for MVS/ESA 4.3 and MVS/ESA 5.1 > and 5.2. It was later rename to Unix System Services under OS/390 long > before "z" hardware and z/OS were ever dreamed of as a name for > the 64-bit hardware and OS. What would you have called it under OS/390 > to have short meaningful abbreviation? > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX IBM wrote TSS/370 in 1980 then VM/IX then AIX/370 in 1988 then AIX/ESA until 1999 when it merged into MVS/ESA Open Edition. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
