ergo names are just labels we assign to objects.
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:50 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: z196 = z10?
On Tuesday, 08/24/2010 at 08:20 EDT, Michael
MacIsaac/Poughkeepsie/i...@ibmus wrote:
> And it's too bad the marketing guys didn't talk to the Linux
development
guys,
> because 's390z' would have been a much better architecture value than
's390x'
> :((
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
- William Shakespeare
'System z' is a brand, and all that implies. 's390x' is just the
follow-on (eXtension) of the s390 Linux architecture. 'z' is just a
letter in the alphabet. :-)
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
