Re: Cheaper Servers? - Been there - done that

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I noticed that the Advanced Portable was offered through v4r1.  At least,
it's in the v4r1 handbook. It was a model 9401.

At v4r2, as Jon suggests, the 9401 was a model 150.

When those first came out, I remember people thinking they looked just like
a PC in your computer room.

At 10:18 AM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>  > AS/400 Advanced Portable is a full-function ....
>
> > Now, y'all can tell me why this did not fly the last time IBM tried this.
>I don't know, personally.
>
>It did fly.  There were a lot of these boxes sold - IBM probably did not
>make a lot of money, but it did sell.
>
>The problem was it came out at the wrong point in time.  They were a CISC
>boxes.  Can't run anything later that V3R2c which is why a whole bunch of
>them sit quietly in their suitcases doing nothing.
>
>Why was a Risc version never produced?  Word as I heard it was that with the
>advent of the 150 (and later 170) IBM Italy didn't need them any more.
>Seems that the large numbers of portables sold as small servers in the
>Italian market were what made the difference between the portables being
>able to be produced in sufficient quantities to justify the
>development/production costs.  When the 150s came along they were cheap
>enough to replace the portable and the requirement shrank to a level where
>it was not economic to produce them.
>
>Since the 400 used a custom risc chip it was not cost-effective to produce
>the kind of laptop version that was produced for the RS/600 line (is that
>still available?).  Now as we move toward a single chip design, maybe it
>becomes practical again - who knows - I'd sure love one!
>
>Jon Paris
>Partner400
>
>
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