Re: AS/400 trivia questions

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

Nina,

>it was true.  it would run, but very badly. one of our clients had one
>of those machines as an early as/400 install (october 1988), and it was
>one of the worst weeks of my life.  they'd gone from a 34 to a new
>as/400 and the response was even worse.  

Like Lou, my recollection is that it was not *that* bad.  At the time
I worked for a business partner that got a B10 with 4MB main storage
and 945MB disk (all three disks!) in about Sep-Oct '88.

I certainly don't remember ever having problems IPL'ing reliably.  It
did improve quite a bit when bumped to 8MB.  But during that early
period the machine was not used real heavily for production work.
Compiles did take awhile, but we were used to that. :(

It could also be our perception of slow was warped because we had so
many customers with 5364's (shudder!) and other speed demons.

Doug
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