Re: OFF TOPIC: OS/400 V4Rx command ref

[dblair <dblair@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote:

 > client access.  Fairly versatile but *slow*.  Our P200 linux box with 32M
 > ram running samba 2.0 runs circles around our AS/400 V4R1 with 96 M ram
 > and some speedy CPU (I don't remember what).  IBM means to use the AS/400
 > for file serving to PCs but it doesn't keep up with samba and linux (or
 > whatever your favorite decent UNIX os is).

That sounds like a pretty small AS/400 to me, not to mention being 3 levels
back on OS/400.

AS/400s don't use especially speedy CPUs at this time- most are 233 and below.
(This is changing.)

I don't disagree it is slower than it should be, but the main point of an
AS/400 isn't file serving at this point. IBM needs to, and can, speed things
up, but lets compare apples to apples. Run 200 users with MRP, plus EDI going,
batch jobs, and communications with other systems, and lets see where your
200mhz Pentium ends up.

All machines have roles. Some are better suited for certain tasks than others.



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