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If you had that much invested in hardware and software and training, I doubt they went over to the "dark side".
These insurance companies generate volumes of data that can not be imagined. They have never built a pc server farm that can handle that sort of volume.
Insurance companies typically were MVS shops until the S/36 came along. The S/36 allowed them to "spread" the load out and reduce the HUGE data centers that were required. The S/36 could process the agent data and then send summaries to the home office every night. This was a really big change.
I suspect a great many remain in the AS/400 world.
Since the 400 finally got big enough to handle fairly large loads, it actually starting cutting into the MVS world. I suspect many companies have now gone back the other way and put terminals in the agent offices and they are all connected to much larger network of 400's.
You don't think IBM came out with that 890 just for your local mom and pop distribution business ????
Chuck Lewis wrote:
So did they all go the AS/400 route ?
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