Mr Perryman sounds a lot like me, when I'm talking about other words. (About "mainframe" I don't think I'm qualified to opine.) When I know what the word means, or meant when I was a boy, everyone who uses the word differently nowadays is contributing to a mistaken use of the word; they don't know any better, but it's still wrong. When it's a word about whose meaning I'm uncertain, or that had several different meanings when I first learned it, THEN it's allowed to be a matter of opinion or varying usage.
I recognize the double standard as I practice it, but I nevertheless insist that a gauntlet is not a gantlet, that there is no such thing as a "stanch" friend or "staunching" a wound, and that there in no place on earth that is the "epicenter" of COVID. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Q: What do you get when you cross a fighter with an aircraft carrier? A: Debris. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 22:58 > --- On Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 06:36:52 AM PDT, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > There is NO DEFINITION.Of course there is a definition otherwise it's > jabberwocky. Not one person is willing to accept the actual definition as > given in all dictionaries: a large computer shared by many people. My point > is that today, every computer used as a server is a mainframe. System z has > fallen to the ranks of a server and mainframe should not be used. > Everyone may use it's own imagination. Made up definitions are either jabberwocky or slang. > Of course some definition may be less popular than other. So you are saying everyone's definition is correct as long as that person knows what it means. > IMHO, The most commonly used definition NOWADAYS is: IBM System Z. Common use of a word doesn't mean people use it correctly. My point is that everyone is using "mainframe" incorrectly. Either System z is a server or all servers are mainframes. Either change the definition or people should use it correctly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
