Having wrestled with this issue for decades, I've come to adopt Mainframe as a generic term that most people recognize. (Ignoring the technowienies that debate the term endlessly.) No one argues with the term or even questions it. It covers hardware and software. You can use other terms if you need to get more specific.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 11:34 AM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Agreed. Saying MVS makes you look old-fashioned, even though MVS still > exists (I guess?) as a component of z/OS. Saying z/OS is limiting. > > Ditto for the hardware. It is a little wordy to say "I have been writing > assembler for the S/360, S370, S/390 and z." (And I guess now Telum?) > > Does that name lead to a who's on first dialog? > > "What's that new IBM chip called?" > "Telum" > "I'd like to tell 'em, but I don't know what it's called." > "Telum" > "Tell 'em what?" > "The name of the chip." > "I don't know the name of the chip." > "Telum" > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 10:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL > > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 06:58:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > > > >I once had an all-out war (I won! I was the president!) with a tech > writer who insisted that the documentation should spell out Multiple > Virtual Systems on the first reference to MVS (in technical documentation > for a hardcore mainframe product). My position was that it made us look > like idiots. > > > BTW, is there a convenient term embracing the line of OSes, OS/360, MVT, > OS/390, z/OS, > and all those others? I don't like to say "MVS" when I wish to include > the pre-virtual > systems, and I don't like to say "OS/360" when I wish to include z/OS. > > -- Skip Robinson 323-715-0595 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
