dickbond...@gmail.com (Dick Bond) writes: > I agree with Chris Mason. IBM should have never started called it USS - > how about a simple definitive abbreviation, like "zUnix". IBM adores > putting a "z" in front of everything (for some clueless reason) so why > should their version of Unix be any different?
back when MVS posix support started ... was in the unix wars period http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars which also resulted in the formation of OSF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation to produce a posix, copyright-free implementation while we were doing HA/CMP product http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp we also did some consulting to the executive that was behind doing the MVS posix implementation ... it was one of the many efforts to try and get around the strangle-hold that the communication group had on the datacenter ... attempting to reverse lots of stuff that was fleeing the mainframe to more distributed computing friendly platforms. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
