RE: Anybody know the record for the longest an AS/400 has been contiuously up?

WOW, James...you really *are* old...LOL (j/k)

My desktop background started the Zenith series which
ran a Z80 and an 8088 (Model Z100).

Compared to the Univac mainframe that I was working on
at the time (with a 4K address space), like Apple, the
Zenith was like "ecstasy" with its 64K...lol

Plus it was a dual processor! Try to find that today :)

Terry

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On 3/15/13 10:32 AM, Winchester Terry wrote:

Of course, this forces me to bow down to another monopolistic
oriented company...but I digress...LOL

Well, yes, but at least it's a monopolistic company that gave up
peddling junk when it discontinued the whole Apple II line.

(Think about it: Radio Shack based their first desktop system
on a Z-80,
a REAL general-purpose processor, with a REAL 64k address
space, while
Apple based the Apple II on the 6502, which I understand to have been
originally intended for embedded systems in household appliances -- a
"washing machine chip," if you will. When Radio Shack added
floppy disk
support, they used index-synch'd soft-sectoring, and added a real, if
pretty simplistic, OS, while when Apple used asynch
soft-sectoring, and
initially offered only the most vestigal of OS's, more a set
of floppy
disk extensions to BASIC than anything else. I celebrated when Apple
abandoned all their pre-Mac stuff.)

But back on topic, the promotional video was obviously a
re-enactment,
throwing anachronisms to the wind, since the box, Hollywood cobwebs
aside, was obviously much newer than the story. And the way I
heard the
story, the room didn't have a locked door; it didn't have ANY door.

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