Re: AS/400 heritage

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Along these lines of a "Positive" usage of this vehicle,  How about this.

1978,  System/38  Had true single level storage.
Then list the other CURRENT machines(NT, *nix's ???)  that have that today?
(still only one in general commercial use).

1978,  System/38  Had an OS that was object orientated.    List the CURRENT
other machines that have that today? (ie not byte orientated).

You could effectively show that the reason WHY the current iSeries is light
years ahead of other machines is because that it STARTed out Light years
ahead of other systems.


Highlight the CISC to RISC transition and that I did a simple restore and
saw the automatic "Now converting to 64 bit"  status message on first
touch.

Heritage can be used in a productive portrayal.

John Carr


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Doug,

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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