RE: Casino switches to AIX

[jim t <jim_t_59@xxxxxxxxx>]

If people are so concerned about the name then this group name should be changed too. "Midrange Systems" was the name for the 34/36/38 & AS400's. I guess the group should now be called "IBM i Technical Discussion".



Jim

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Casino switches to AIX
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 10:10 PM
> You guys seem to be really obsessed by naming....
>
> I prefer to call it OS/400, it's the name that defines
> the "class" of OS, like NT4 defines a class of
> OS's like 2000, XP, Vista, independent of any marketing
> scheme....
>
> And i really don't think that pushing the new name of
> the day into ones throat helps in getting some respect for
> the platform. It may even backfire because saying it's
> superior because it has a new fancy name is suspicious.
> Better to call OS/400 modern and alive because IBM still
> invests in it, and markets it with a new fance name. And
> it's just that, a new fancy name.
>
> It is - and always was - a superior platform. 
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:07:27 -0500
> > From: stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Casino switches to AIX
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Jerry Adams
> <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Just a thought here, but I can understand and
> appreciate that folders, etc., are still named
> (whatever)400.
> > >  I could . change the names of all of my
> libraries, folders, et al, here, but that might cause, as
> > > they say, "unpredictable results."
> >
> > what would be neat is if the OS was enhanced to call
> an exit program
> > whenever an object is not found. The exit program
> would then be able
> > to return the actual object name to use.  This object
> name mapper
> > would map long object names to the actual 10 char
> system name.  Or map
> > the old directory name to its new name.
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