I used to have Ford Galaxy "XL500" I liked that name. The car not so much.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:13 PM Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Monday, 10/14/2019 at 04:57 GMT, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > Shoulda been 's390z'. IIRC it was decided less than a year before the > > mainframe got rebranded to 'z'. > > Think of s390x and "s390 with extensions", a la 370/XA. The external > marketing term "z/Architecture" was very late. Based on the internal > technical name of the architecture, I would suggest just taking the "x" > and running with it. > > Personally, I think they should have added 30 more degrees (360+10=370, > 370+20=390, 390+30=420) and had S/420, but that's weird and too easily > confused with AS/400. So add 110 degrees and make it S/500? Eeew. I > know, right? Gotta have the '3'? So maybe just add 1 and have S/391. > Drats. Can't have an odd number, so S/392. Eeew**2. No wonder they > called it "z/Architecture". Why number it when you can name it? > > Alan Altmark > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant > IBM Systems Lab Services > IBM Z Delivery Practice > ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > IBM Endicott > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
