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  • Subject: RE: New Subject: Series/1
  • From: Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:39:24 -0400

S/1  was well out of  support stages by  Y2K.

I recall  doing many unusual feats with the  S/1
especially in  MRJE and the likes to stretch a  dying  systems life cycle until a replacement was available or  more com facilities.

At 03:09 PM 06/07/2001 -0400, Carl Galgano wrote:
I think most S/1 were phased out because of Y2K.  I know Advantis (now ATT
Global, but was Advantis Global) used S/1 as comm front ends for BSC comms
into their network.  They dumped them all late in 1999.  The S/1 was an
unbelievable box. It could/would talk to ANYTHING.
cjg


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:00 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: New Subject: Series/1


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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