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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > However, I thought that one of the fundamental ideas of OS/400 was that you > could slip new hardware underneath the operating system without disturbing > it. I thought the horizontal and vertical microcode was supposed to allow > exactly this sort of thing. Haven't we had processor upgrades before that > didn't require an upgrade to a new version of the operating system? > > Just wondering. Because if you're saying each new version of hardware > requires new software, then OS/400 has lost one of the major benefits that I > (evidently mistakenly) thought it had. > IBM has discovered that Microsoft makes money (and lots of it) by forcing the user into the upgrade cycle by tying hardware and software upgrades, so IBM wants to try that too.
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