RE: AS/400 History

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:03 PM 7/8/98 -0500, Bob Crothers wrote:
>I think it was System/3 and 36, then System 38.  The Sys/38 had 
> S36 emulation from almost day one.  How could it emulate a 
>machine that didn't already exist?

No, it was the other way round. The S38 had been out for a while when my 
employer got his first S/36 right after they were released. I don't recall S36 
emulation on the 38. There was a S/34 to S/38 conversion tool though. The 
AS/400 had S/36 emulation from day one. It was a big deal at the time, with 
much hoopla about how thoroughly beta sites had tested the 36EE for consistency 
with the "real" S/36.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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