Re: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nope - someone on the list recently pointed out that S/38 sales did not 
take off, so IBM came out with the S/36 as the follow-on to the S/34. IIRC.

Vern

At 03:20 PM 8/11/2004, you wrote:
> Shouldn't these be the other way around? Didn't the S/36 come before the
> S/38?
>
> <quote>
> A storied past
> IBM's plan to pull iSeries closer toward the mainstream began in 1995,
> when the company switched it to a more widely used processor. But the
> server line already had a long history.
>
> It began as the System/38 line that was launched in 1978 and the
> System/36 that arrived in 1983;
> </quote>
>
> >
> > message: 6
> > date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:24:17 -0500
> > from: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: RE: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul
> >
> > Nice catch Steve, thanks !
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Subject: IBM overhauls iSeries for the long haul
> >
> > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5300765.html
> >
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