Since it's the weekend: in Ireland, license plates are assigned to a car and never change when ownership changes, and the license numbers have always been YY-COUNTY-NUMBER, where YY is the year of the car's manufacture. Our 2008 Ford plate is 08-CE-4088 for County Clare.
In anticipation of Irish superstitions, the year was changed for the 2013 year models; cars sold in the first half of 2013 had 131-CO-number and 132-CO-number for the last half, so no one would have a plate with a 13. Barry Merrill -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Beyond the EC12 If the superstition about "13" was considered, why did they come out with z/OS 1.13? :) Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Beyond the EC12 On 4/25/2014 8:09 AM, Klein, Kenneth E wrote: > Has anyone heard any good rumors about what will be coming out next year as > the latest and greatest model? > z296? > Ec14? You bring up an interest point to contemplate as IBM eventually considers official names for its 13th-generation machine (if and when such a thing is produced). Is there still enough superstition about the number '13' that they will avoid using it and come up with something completely different? Or will they stick with EC13/BC13? For the record, I consider it unlikely that they will leap ahead to '14' and be out-of-sync forever more. I also believe the chances close to 'nil' that they will reduce from 120 cores on EC12 back down to 96 for the next generation, making any name ending in '96' not worthy of consideration. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
