RE: AS/400 heritage

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

I was surprised to get a flame privately where someone said more-or-less
that I had taken a cheap shot at the iSeries with my post yesterday.  It
took me by surprise because I'm more passionate about the iSeries than I was
about the AS/400.  I was more passionate about the AS/400 than I was about
the S/38.

If I left the impression that I like the S/38 more than what I like the
iSeries, then I messed up pretty good.  If I left that impression, then I
did an unbelieveably poor job trying to communicate.  I may have completely
missed my mark, but what I was trying to communicate was that the
_prehistoric ancestor_ of the iSeries was, in many ways, better that the
other guys state-of-the-art today.

From the posts here, I can see many people agree on that ! !  If I didn't
make that point, then I just didn't say it right.

BTW, I didn't much cotton to the idea of the AS/400 getting renamed to the
iSeries, like many of you.  But starting Oct. 3, I never referred to the
machine as an AS/400 again (except in a context like this).  As I wrote in
my previous post, I consider all of them to be the same machine anyway.  So
my loyalty is to the iSeries.  It's the "iSeries" Nation that I signed up
for ! !

jt

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