Re: AS/400 Trivia...

GEEZ!  The title says it best.  It's considered *T R I V I A*.


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"If all you have is RPG, then everything looks like a 400!"

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: midrange-L@midrange.com <midrange-L@midrange.com>
Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:29 PM
Subject: AS/400 Trivia...


>Trivia Question - Name the system that...
>
>... has the highest customer satisfaction index, as measured by public
>technical trade publication, in the industry
>... allows deployment of Linux, Java, UNIX, Windows 2000 and Domino based
>applications on a single server
>... is the first system to deliver 16Mbit and 64Mbit Memory Drams
>... has never had a reported virus while customers have had security
>functions operational
>... is the first midrange system to deliver hardware data compression for
>both disk and tape with 2-3X compression
>... delivers vector coded indexes for Business Intelligence applications
>offering 10X improvement in performance
>... is the first system to deliver a Systems Managed Access Path Protection
>(SMAPP) for Journaling
>... is the first commercial system to have the world's fastest cross-bar
>memory switch
>... has had over 300 different processors in its history and no customer
>has ever had to recompile their application code
>... ships with over 300 processor chips under the covers of a single
"system"
>... can have 16 PC Servers under its covers running 4 different operating
>systems while sharing the host systems DASD
>... has more patents and copyrights than most of its competitors do for
>their entire company's product line
>... is the only system that ships over 30M lines of code (functionality) in
>it operating system, all integrated and guaranteed by one service team, WW
>... is so easy to install that one customer installed almost 60 of them a
>day for a year, i.e. 15,300 systems
>... has proven in a 2 year study that it can deliver 99.97% availability
>... has proven its operating system can operate for more than 1 year
>without ever requiring a re-IPL, in hundreds of customer shops
>... is only system listed in the top-ten performance of all four public
>commercially oriented benchmarks like TPC-C, NotesBench, SAP, CSLabs
>... is the only system that can directly (natively) support 10 different
>file structure, like PC files, UNIX file, Netware files, Domino files,
>ASCII files, EBCDIC files
>... is sold and supported in every country that IBM does business in
>... was declared "dead" by two consultants in two magazines, 8 years ago
>when it shipped the 100,000th system
>... continues to break industry sales records and has now shipped over
>650,000 systems
>... is architected, designed, built, tested and supported from one of the
>coldest places in USA
>
>Answer:
>AS400.... for Extreme Business! Share the News!
>
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