On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:16:32 -0700, Dick Bond <dickbond...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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? > I'm not getting in the middle of this (again!), but "USS" started long before "z" was ever around. And before it was USS - "Unix System Services" under OS/390, it was OMVS - "Open Edition" or Open Edition MVS. BTW, I still see OMVS used a lot as well. USS is one less key stroke. :-) The problem with this discussion (that never seems to end) is that you can't go back and rewrite history. Even if "MVS" was not a component of z/OS, or IBM renamed the MVS component to something else, everyone would still call it MVS. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
