RE: IBM OS/4i???

Hi Don,

I found a reference to this operating system in the
2001 version of a newsletter in German profiling that
year's COMMON.

"Das Gerücht, das ?wir? zumindest nicht mitbekommen
haben: OS/400 droht ebenfalls einem Rebranding zum
Opfer zu fallen, IBM hat sich bereits das
Markenzeichen OS/4i schützen lassen. Sicher erfahren
wir dazu auf der COMMON Konferenz 2001 mehr ? auch
über die Konsequenzen. Versäumen Sie also Ihre
Teilnahme nicht."

What would probably be kind of fun would be to start a
rumour that due to the success of Linux running on
Intel based servers, IBM had decided it would be
beneficial to the worldwide computer community as a
whole to have a version of the operating system
formerly known as OS/400 that ran on Intel processors
- thus OS/4i.

I'll bet things in Redmond would be busy for a few
minutes investigating that possibility...

Remember this is just a fantasy ...

Best Regards,

/Paul
--
Paul Tykodi
Principal Consultant
TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC
E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxxx

>date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
>from: Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: RE: IBM OS/4i???
>
>
>Nope.  I mean OS/4i  It's an IBM O/S that I've not
>been able to get a handle on the what's, where's and
>what the F$#@ on yet..
>
>Don in DC
>
>On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jonathan Mason wrote:
>
>> Hi Don
>>
>> Do you mean v4.1 of OS/400?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>Of Don
>> Sent: 17 May 2005 03:28
>> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: IBM OS/4i???
>>
>>
>> Anyone heard of an IBM o/s called 4i??
>>
>> Don in DC


                
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