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-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 6:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z15 from IBM i perspective So you're saying it was translated...carelessly? On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:29 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > ObPedant "I could care less?" > > "I could care less." is the result of translating an ironic question in > Yiddish into a meaningless statement in English, probably because somebody > had a tin ear and didn't pick up on the inflection indicating that it was a > question. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 4:04 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z15 from IBM i perspective > > Charles Mills wrote: > > >Interesting article even if you could care less about the IBM i (AS/400 > for anyone who has been living under a rock for the past 20 years). > > > > "couldn't care less" :) > > > > BTW, just to be irritatingly pedantic: IBM i is not really AS/400. It's > what AS/400 developed into, but it refers to the current generation of the > AS/400 OS (formerly OS/400) running on IBM Power. From Wikipedia: > > IBM i is an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM > PureSystems. It was named OS/400 when it was introduced with the AS/400 > line of computer systems in 1988, was later renamed i5/OS, and was renamed > IBM i in 2008 when IBM Power Systems was introduced. > > > > So it's confusing, because "AS/400" begat "iSeries" begat "System i" begat > "IBM i", only IBM i implies "on Power", whereas the others imply "on > bespoke hardware". Sort of as if Apple had renamed Mac OS to macOS when > they went to Intel hardware (which is not when they did that). > > > > This doesn't really matter nowadays, since anything old enough to be > pre-Power is very obsolete, but it's sorta interesting. I find that > customers still say "AS/400"; none of the "i" names appear to have ever > really caught on. > > > > Related: It's "IBM Power", not "PowerPC". PowerPC is the very old > precursor to the current generation; this is much like saying your shiny > new ThinkPad has a 386-it's sorta kinda in the neighborhood, but really > just wrong. > > > > Signed, > > Mr. Pedantic > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
