Barry, My family being from Belfast I understand the superstition ...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Apr 26, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
