OS/390 Replaced By z/OS

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OS/390 Replaced By z/OS 215

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 27, 2001 @05:11AM from the name-changes-are-usually-for-the-worse dept.

n7lyg writes: "ZDnet reports that IBM is replacing the venerable OS/390 with something called z/OS. What I want to know is if using z/OS is still like 'kicking a dead whale down the beach,' as Ken Thompson once said of one of its predecessors (DOS? OS/360? I forget the exact OS he was complaining about)." Well, z/OS does add 64-bit support and other goodies.

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