The narcissism here is amazing. To claim IBM doesn’t know what they are doing and some dudes on the internet do. There are 10,000+ mainframes. That would extrapolate to tens of thousands of systems programmers worldwide. I’m fairly certain the few hundred here, of which 20-30 dominate 90% of the banter, aren’t smarter than the managers at IBM.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, August 7, 2023, 11:16 AM, Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote: Choir here. Maybe you should explain this to IBM marketing and "C" level management? To bad they aren't A level managers. ;-) Just say'n'. Steve Thompson On 8/6/2023 10:57 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: > > On Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 06:36:52 AM PDT, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >> There is NO DEFINITION.Of course there is a definition otherwise it's >> jabberwocky. Not one person is willing to accept the actual definition as >> given in all dictionaries: a large computer shared by many people. My point >> is that today, every computer used as a server is a mainframe. System z has >> fallen to the ranks of a server and mainframe should not be used. >> Everyone may use it's own imagination. > Made up definitions are either jabberwocky or slang. > >> Of course some definition may be less popular than other. > So you are saying everyone's definition is correct as long as that person > knows what it means. > >> IMHO, The most commonly used definition >> NOWADAYS is: IBM System Z. > > Common use of a word doesn't mean people use it correctly. My point is that > everyone is using "mainframe" incorrectly. Either System z is a server or all > servers are mainframes. Either change the definition or people should use it > correctly. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
