Re: New Subject: Series/1

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin,

>For us "New to the AS/400-iSeries world" folks, could someone give some
>background on the Series/1 and perhaps a website or two a person could
>navigate to?  Thanks!

I worked on the Series/1 for ahwile in '79 and '80, running an operating system
called "Event Driven Executive" and programming in a language called "Event
Driven Language".

At the time, the S/1 was used largely for process control instead of commercial
business applications.  The only indexed access was via a PRPQ, there was not a
print spooler, no menus or sign-on security, etc.  (A print spooler was added
later, but I think it was a PRPQ too.)

But from a hardware standpoint the price/performance was very good compared to
the S/34 (which I also worked on).  The software house I worked at then brought
in a S/1 to decide if we thought it was a viable option over the S/34.  At the
time, I think K-Mart and a farm Coop in Kansas has just ordered 5000 S/1's each.

As I recall, the S/1 was a follow-on to something called the System 7, but I
never saw one of those.  The S/1 was a multi-user system with very good
connectivity for things like ASCII devices, and it was well suited for process
control, enery management, etc.

While I enjoyed working on it, it was not near as productive for coding business
applications as SSP and RPG II on the S/34.

Doug

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