RE: Casino switches to AIX -- MIDRANGE-L

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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