"Favorite son" is an American political expression meaning a politician with a lot of followers in his home state but very few anywhere else. The favorite son operating system of POK is thus IBM's operating system with the most fame, power, cachet, users, income generating power, etc., etc., which means z/OS these days. Anything which tends to denigrate z/OS (called MVS way back when Lynn Wheeler was called by somebody from that group) must immediately be out-denigrated, even if it requires denying and obfuscating an obviously true fact. This proclivity is a near-universal aspect of human nature.
Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence" Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >I was then called by somebody from the POK favorite son operating >system 'son operating system' ????? Uhhhh, I may be a dumb <excrement> ( :-D ), but please excuse my ignorance, but what is that? (I certainly know what is POK) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
