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Very true, but public perception goes a long way, and for the most part, the
public, and many executives don't care about the technical changes. To them,
it still looks like and acts like the well-known brand name of AS/400. So,
you could say the iSeries is different, but still the same. The S/38, while
it was a great machine for its time, wasn't well-known, so it never became
engrained.

Mostly, this equates to a Marketing issue. The Disney company suffers with
this as do many other companies. Numerous times I've heard people refer to
Dreamworks or almost any other animated flick as a "Disney" film. The same
thing happens with the identies of their domestic parks, people confuse
Disney World and Disneyland all the time, but they are drastically
different. But, the general public could care less.

Ron Adams

On 6/5/07, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ask yourself this. Why don't they still call this a S/38?
After all, it runs most all the applications that were on a S/38, right?
What is the difference? Amount of memory and disk size? They've
increased the limits on the S/38 before and didn't change the name so why
did they change it when this new box came out? New software? They added
OPNQRYF to the S/38 and didn't change the name then did they? So why
later?

The fact is that the AS/400 and the S/38 were drastically different. And
I dare say that the AS/400 and the iSeries are as drastically different.

Rob Berendt
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