Re: AS/400 heritage

["Evelyn Hoover" <evelynhoover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug--The Heritage column will be one page in each issue. It will have a
photo of a legacy system with information on the speeds and feeds of that
system versus the speeds and feeds of a current system, probably a 270 in
most cases. The bottom of the page will have the anecdotes or stories from
users about the old system.

Evelyn Hoover
Managing Editor
iSeries Magazine
(507) 286-6853 T/L 456-6853
e-mail: evelynhoover@us.ibm.com
Web site: http://www.the400resource.com



                                                                                
                                        
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Evelyn,

>What
>features made it so great for the time? What were its limitations? Were
>your loyalties to the System/36 or the System/38, and why?

I know the iSeries magazine is "preaching to the choir", but if you are
going to
do this, at least put side-by-side comparisons of the highlighted vintage
model
vs current specifications (with prices).

Then at least it can be used to show others that the iSeries is not our
grandfather's 400, and we have had dramatic increases in speeds & feeds
too.
The machine seems to have a hard time shaking the legacy image, even while
it
has some of the latest SOI technologies and 7th-generation 64-bit
processing.

Nostalgia has its place, but PLEASE make sure the Heritage series plays up
how
that was then and this is now.  The 400 has a somewhat unique ability to
support
radical changes in hardware technology.  The folks who cry "legacy" already
are
missing the boat on what the 400 really represents -- don't foster more
images
of the 400 being an "old" machine.

To put it in perspective, maybe you could also show a state-of-the-art 1988
PC
(a PS/2 model 80?) vs today.  What have they had, a 100-fold increase in
speed
compared to our 1000-fold?  And how many new OS releases compared to us?

Doug
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