RE: Clarify i5 vs. iSeries please

Hmmm...I don't think so. I think there are three different variants -
AS/400, iSeries, i5. 4 if you count the S/38.

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:29:28 -0400, "Walden H. Leverich"
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >Sure...just like there were/are AS/400s before iSeries.
> 
> That's where the confusion comes from though. I don't think it's the
> same. If I had an AS/400 sitting here, it's an AS/400. When I bought an
> iSeries it wasn't an AS/400, it was an iSeries. However, I think this is
> different. If I buy a new 570, I'm buying an i5, but I think I'm buying
> an iSeries i5, not just an i5. That is the new hardware is still
> correctly called an iSeries.
> 
> -Walden
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> Sure...just like there were/are AS/400s before iSeries.
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:11:35 -0400, "Walden H. Leverich"
> <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > All,
> > 
> > Am I correct in my understanding that the "iSeries" name is _not_
> going
> > away. The i5s are the "most recent member of the iSeries family"
> > according to the iSeries home page @ IBM.
> > 
> > So if I wanted to correctly refer to what one of those machine that we
> > all have that run 5250 applications could I still correctly call it an
> > iSeries?
> > 
> > -Walden
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