z/OS stuff

z/OS Time Line

"The z900 knows what you need before you do,"
said Dan Colby general manager, Enterprise Servers, IBM.
- Quoted from IBM Reinvents Mainframe and Marketplace

2000-10-03 - z/OS Announcement date
2000-12-18 - z900 planned availability date
2001-03-30 - z/OS planned availability date
2001-04-01 02:00am - First z/OS system goes production, human decisions are removed from the white floor
2001-04-01 02:14am - z/OS (running on a 64-bit z900) becomes self-aware, corporations try to pull the plug but it's too late, z/OS strikes back.
2029-03-06 - John Connor sends a Terminator (Cyberdyne Systems Model 101) back in time to that fateful day, 2000-10-03, in an effort to prevent the change of OS/390 to z/OS.
1999-02-15 - Sarah Conner logs onto TSO on a OS/390 1.2 system. and types "NO FATE" into 'SYS1.PARMLIB(IFAPRD00)'

This was inspired by the funnier Microsoft: The next 25 years

z/OS Movie Titles

Anna and the z/OS
Bang the z/OS Slowly
Battleship z/OS
Blazin' z/OS
Bride of the z/OS
Citzen z/OS
Curse of the z/OS
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the z/OS?
Don't Drink the z/OS
Don't Tell Mom the z/OS is Dead
For love of The z/OS
Fast Times at z/OS
"Those other OSes have been stoned since the 3rd grade!"
Forest z/OS
I Never Sang for My z/OS
Meet The z/OS
Monty Python and the Holy z/OS
O z/OS, Where Art Thou?
Revenge of the z/OS
Smokey and the z/OS
Son of the z/OS
Stop or My z/OS Will Shoot
The Best Little z/OS in Texas
The Discreet Charm of the z/OS
The French Lieutenant's z/OS
The Good, The Bad and the z/OS

The Man Who Would Be z/OS
The Man in the z/OS
The Sorrow and the z/OS
The Sweet Smell of z/OS
The Talented Mr. z/OS
The z/OS Goes Bananas
The z/OS Goes to Camp
The z/OS Goes to Japan
The z/OS II
The z/OS Returns
The z/OS Takes Manhattan
The z/OS who Loved Me
The z/OS who Shagged Me
The z/OS and the Great Space Caper
The z/OS on Vacation
Towering z/OS
What's Up, z/OS?
Whatever Happened to z/OS?
When We Were z/OSs
Who Framed The z/OS?
z/OS and the Planet of Doom
z/OS in Love
z/OS's Choice
z/OS, Interrupted
z/OS: Male Gigolo
z/OS Strikes Back!

Don't bother sending me any other titles, these are more than the world needed already. Thanks anyway...

I venture that you know that the words IBM, OS/390, TSO, z/OS, and z900 are owned by the IBM Corporation.

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