The z196/z114 names were just plain confusing, so yeah, I'd assume they wouldn't do that. If they were going to have an aberration, they should have done that for 13.
Let's see, z10EC/BC, zEC12/zBC12...maybe z1EC3/z1BC3 to hide the "13"?! On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com>wrote: > On 4/25/2014 8:09 AM, Klein, Kenneth E wrote: > >> Has anyone heard any good rumors about what will be coming out next year >> as the latest and greatest model? >> z296? >> Ec14? >> > > You bring up an interest point to contemplate as IBM eventually considers > official names for its 13th-generation machine (if and when such a thing is > produced). > > Is there still enough superstition about the number '13' that they will > avoid using it and come up with something completely different? Or will > they stick with EC13/BC13? > > For the record, I consider it unlikely that they will leap ahead to '14' > and be out-of-sync forever more. > > I also believe the chances close to 'nil' that they will reduce from 120 > cores on EC12 back down to 96 for the next generation, making any name > ending in '96' not worthy of consideration. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
