RE: What is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)

This was clearly just a name change.  IBM decided to change the names of
the processor to i5 from iSeries (or did they really change it?) and from
OS/400 to i5/OS just about a month before GA.  Keep changing those names so
they get no market recognition.

Al

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Maybe I'm getting old and crotchety and don't want to accept progress - or
maybe I'm just a luddite. But I don't see a distinction between i5/OS &
OS/400, other than marketing renames. Certainly not to the extent of the
difference between VM and MVS in the mainframe world. (I probably have
these terms all wrong - someone please help me!) Seems I remember -
admittedly from the outside, as I was a lowly office temp at the time -
that this was a significant shift that required lots of work to convert
from one to the other. That is certainly not the case with i5/OS & OS/400.
And in the mainframe world today, at IBM's site, I find this -- "Built upon

the solid VM/ESA base, z/VM exploits the z/Architecture ..." I can imagine
a statement like "Built upon the solid OS/400 base, i5OS exploites the
i/Architecture ..."   ;-)

Vern

At 11:20 AM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
>An i5 is a hardware platform that comes bundled with i5/OS (not OS/400).
>It can be extended via software and sometimes hardware to also run AIX,
>Windows 2000/2003 Server, and 32- and 64-bit Linux distributions from
>Red Hat and Novell (Suse).  It can execute any applications designed for
>any of those operating systems provided that OS is installed and
>configured with sufficient resources.

-snip-

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