RE: Casino switches to AIX

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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