> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För Mark > Zelden > Skickat: den 4 maj 2011 20:29 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Re: SV: USS vs USS > > 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? > Oh. In that case: "INIX" (I = IBM), "UNIX370", "UNIX390", "370UNIX", "390UNIX", "IBMUNIX" or "UNIXIBM". :) (I would have preferred INIX as a short and (relatively..) future safe name.)
Regards, Thomas Berg _________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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