RE: AS/400 History

Actually the first model B10's went out with only 4MB or RAM, and IBM
gave everyone another 4MB to bring it to 8MB (which then became the new
minimum memory config on a B10).
You couldn't have 32MB on a B10, the max is 16MB !



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Hall [SMTP:peteh@inwave.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 10:52 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: AS/400 History
> 
> At 01:32 PM 7/9/98 -0400, Dean Asmussen wrote:
> >Yeah, exept IBM kept telling their sales reps that there was "no
> performance
> >difference between the S/36EE and native SSP".  Tell that to my
> client who's
> >month-end process went from two hours on a 5363 to nearly all _day_
> on a C10!
> >And calling a Y10 an "AS/Entry" machine?  Sheesh!  Thank heavens the
> (short-
> >lived) 436 made up for its predecessors' poor performance!
> 
> Our first 400 was a B10 with 16MB of RAM. There were so many
> complaints that IBM actually gave an additional 16MB to everyone that
> had that configuration. It was pretty feeble. I always liked the
> AS/Entry. Of course I drove to work in a Ford Probe.
> 
> Pete Hall
> peteh@inwave.com 
> http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
> 
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