Re: Number of installed AS/400s

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 07:48 PM 5/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
With regard to this question, the number shipped does not represent the
number in use.  Most CISC hardware today is worthless, and cannot be
upgraded to RISC. although in the past many were.

Al

h
>Lurton Keel wrote:
>
>> Treading Water AS/400 is going strong in its tenth year with over
>>                   25,000 installed applications, more than 500,000
installed
>> customer
>>                   sites,
>
><snip>
>
>So what is it?   500,000 _sites_ as this IBM page says or 500,000 shipped as
>Roger's sparkler says.
>
>My bet is that "shipped"  is the accurate term and that a when new 730 that
>replaces an old 510, they both get counted.
>
>jte
>
>
>> This is from: http://as400.rochester.ibm.com/news/archive.htm
>> <http://as400.rochester.ibm.com/news/archive.htm>
>>
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