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On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM Dick Williams < [email protected]> wrote: > LOLOLOLOL you people are hilarious. > does z stand for in IBM Z?zero downtimeThe Z series (Z stands for “zero > downtime”) introduced several breakthroughs that continue to be employed > today. IBM z15. A raft of new features. The IBM z15 followed in 2019, > running on the IBM System/390 chip architecture. > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Monday, March 3, 2025, 12:02 PM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Right, and it was "zSeries" (and pSeries and iSeries and xSeries), not > z-series or z/Series or any other variation. And that name died in 2005. > > BTW, per IBM, "z/" = software; no slash=hardware. This gets blurry with > things like z/Architecture, which they consider to be software, and > zSecure, which they consider to be hardware, even though both could > reasonably be considered the "other thing". But it's otherwise not tricky, > even if a lot of vendors don't seem to have understood it. > > > IIRC xSeries was because of x86. Or maybe I assumed that. > > My mnemonic was fuzzy but worked for me: > z -- this one I could remember since it was everywhere in my world (z900, > z/OS, z/VM, etc.) > x -- x86 > p -- Power > i -- the other one :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Pommier, Rex > Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 11:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: The mainframe is alive > > What? IBM calls it "z series" because it's the end of the line? Where > did you dream that one up? > > According to my memory - and Wikipedia (along with several other sources) > agrees with me - way back when IBM rebranded their lines, they named the > mainframe line the z series for zero down time. They named the RS6000s the > p series for performance and the AS/400 line the I series for integrated > because it comes with an integrated DB2 database. I don't know and don't > care why the labeled the Intel based machines the x series. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
