ObOverloadedAcronym VMS is a failed predecessor to MVT. I used to run PCP and the police didn't mind. DOS runs on S/360 and S/370.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 06:58:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >I once had an all-out war (I won! I was the president!) with a tech writer who >insisted that the documentation should spell out Multiple Virtual Systems on >the first reference to MVS (in technical documentation for a hardcore >mainframe product). My position was that it made us look like idiots. > BTW, is there a convenient term embracing the line of OSes, OS/360, MVT, OS/390, z/OS, and all those others? I don't like to say "MVS" when I wish to include the pre-virtual systems, and I don't like to say "OS/360" when I wish to include z/OS. (And some of my colleagues ask, "'MVS'? Don't you mean 'VMS'?" And I've seen, "VM is a version of MVS.") -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
