IBM's new pUnix announcement

The following is from a traderag:

For example, we didn't rebrand existing RS/6000 products," said IBM spokesman
Jim Larkin.
"If you want to buy the RS/6000 S80, you still can."

But, Larkin admitted, the transition is awkward for some customers.

"It's been kind of confusing to people," he said.

Yet while the new products may be considered upgrades to existing servers,
they are nonetheless new systems, Larkin said.

Today's eServer p680 announcement is an example, he said. "This is not a
rebranded S80, this is a different box," Larkin said. "It uses the same
amount of processors, but we added silicon-on-insulator copper chips
(previously only available on the AS/400e), increased the memory and brought
over some other features."


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note the "brought over".  From where? from the AS/400 of course.


Leif Svalgaard

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