Naming philosophy

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Even when there is a one-to-one mapping of an OS/400 object to an MI system object, the objects may have different names.

For example, OS/400 has an object called a library.

There is an equivalent system object at the MI, but there it is called a context.

How could this happen ?

The answer goes back to the System/38 days and the two different groups of people with two different naming philosophies.

Inside the AS/400, Frank G. Soltis