Back in the early '80s, I was told that IBM's Model Range for the 3083 - E, B and J - used the initial letter of the Product Managers' last names for the models. Anyone know if this was true? ALH
-----Original Message----- From: zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 15:53 Subject: Re: Beyond the EC12 That's interesting .Why did they do the 131/132 thing, though? If they didn't run out in other years, why did they suddenly feel the need to double the address space? Or were they already on the verge of running out, in which case the alleged reason might be an urban legend? On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Barry Merrill <ba...@mxg.com> wrote: > Since it's the weekend: in Ireland, license plates are assigned to a car > and never change > when ownership changes, and the license numbers have always been > YY-COUNTY-NUMBER, where > YY is the year of the car's manufacture. Our 2008 Ford plate is 08-CE-4088 > for County Clare. > > In anticipation of Irish superstitions, the year was changed for the 2013 > year models; > cars sold in the first half of 2013 had 131-CO-number and 132-CO-number > for the last half, > so no one would have a plate with a 13. > > Barry Merrill > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:40 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Beyond the EC12 > > If the superstition about "13" was considered, why did they come out with > z/OS 1.13? :) > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > Information Technology > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Beyond the EC12 > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
