Re: AS/400 heritage

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And what are the odds that every single program written to run on that
1988 PC will run on today's 1.5 GHz Pentium 4??  (Clue: Zero, Zip,
Zilch, none, notta, nought, zippp, bupkis...)

Anyway, my 'story' is of a July 1988 B30. It was installed with 800MB
Disk and about 16MB Memory. We converted a very large custom written
S/36 application. We had up to 15 developers running on that machine.
Since the S/36 code writen in RPG II 1/2 (with Macros) we had to
basically write a precompiler to process the source previous to it
compiling on the AS/400.  After runnin the machine for about a month it
warned us: "Impending DASD Failure. You should back up your data and
call for service." We did, and it did (failed). No data was lost just a
*very* long restore after replacing the disk. (1000s of source members
on a B30 from a 9347, are you kidding!!)

When is the last time your PC warned you BEFORE the disk died???

The last I knew (two years ago now) that machine was still running,
still a B30, never upgraded.

 - Larry

Neil Palmer wrote:

> That's an excellent suggestion.  Every time some PC bigot drags out the
> tired old "legacy" argument we could pull out that issue of iSeries
> magazine and show them some "legacy" PC's - and the excellent performance
> improvements in the 400 over the years.  Top end memory going from 192MB
> to 128GB.  Disk from 54.8GB to 19TB.  CPW from 20 to 20200.  Legacy system
> my a** !  ;-)
> 
> ...Neil

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Larry Bolhuis           | Cogito ergo mercari iSeries 
Arbor Solutions, Inc.   |
(616) 451-2500          |               (I think, therefore I buy iSeries.)
(616) 451-2571 -fax     |
lbolhuis@arbsol.com     |        #3  1951-2001
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