Re: AS/400 History

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Pete,

  Actually I'd bet that your B10 was a 4MB machine.  The B10 MAXED at
16MB.  IBM Did supply an additional 4MB to B10 users and eventually just
gave the 4MB to the customer.  Pretty amazing to realize that V4R2 now
requires 64MB just to IPL.  I guess all that additional function comes
at a cost!

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net

Pete Hall wrote:
> 
> At 01:32 PM 7/9/98 -0400, Dean Asmussen wrote:
> >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!
> 
> Our first 400 was a B10 with 16MB of RAM. There were so many complaints that 
>IBM actually gave an additional 16MB to everyone that had that configuration. 
>It was pretty feeble. I always liked the AS/Entry. Of course I drove to work 
>in a Ford Probe.
> 
> Pete Hall
> peteh@inwave.com
> http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
> 
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