Dale I do enjoy literary references.
It's not always certain that others do. For example, it's not completely clear that Art Gutowski appreciates that the smell of a rose is sweet - although his remote smell-detection technology could make him a fortune! Pity it doesn't handle coffee![1] There is a rebuttal from HD as we can obviously now call him. There's no point using his post as a handle for my reply since I almost certain he doesn't read my posts - nor those of certain others and it was only a very rash response to one of those that got this whole band-wagon rolling again.[2] To avoid any need to try to deal with this so-called rebuttal, the reason his response is wrong in essence is covered by the following two references which you may have missed if you have just jumped into these threads: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/u.html#x2042481 http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0907&L=ibm- main&T=0&F=&S=&P=198809 Unfortunately, "IBM" encompasses many "cats" and this gives encouragement to the recusants and recalcitrants. His "evolution of terminology" - perhaps to his great ire - which may be the cause of the stubbornness - fails to take account of the persistence - even "once removed" - of the function which prevents his advocated use being legacy-free, the function originating as it does within a product intimately tied to SNA, a protocol suite at which he would probably prefer really to be throwing eggs rather that being one - and not a particularly good one! I'm sorry to disagree (!) but I believe he can be understood quite well. - [1] Look out for an investment opportunity! http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=ibm- main&T=0&F=&S=&P=36559 [2] For those who want to discover how this whole sorry bigot-ridden saga got started. http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=ibm- main&T=0&F=&S=&P=1371 http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=ibm- main&T=0&F=&S=&P=2908 http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1105&L=ibm- main&T=0&F=&S=&P=3123 - Chris Mason On Thu, 5 May 2011 18:47:16 -0700, Dale Miller <dalelmil...@comcast.net> wrote: >Ted MacNEIL said: >"I shall continue to use USS to relate to z/UNIX." > >"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it >means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less." > >I must add: "not if you expect me to understand you". > > >Dale Miller >dalelmil...@comcast.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
