Re: AS/400 History

Pete,

In a message dated 98-07-09 06:35:33 EDT, you write:

<<snip>>
> 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.

Yeah, exept IBM kept telling their sales reps that there was "no performance
difference between the S/36EE and native SSP".  Tell that to my client who's
month-end process went from two hours on a 5363 to nearly all _day_ on a C10!
And calling a Y10 an "AS/Entry" machine?  Sheesh!  Thank heavens the (short-
lived) 436 made up for its predecessors' poor performance!

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier." -- Charles F.
Kettering

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