RE: I'm about to give up on "System i"

Aaron,

To help keep Trevor from repeating himself again again, I'll answer
that!... :)

Since the "System i5" machines hit the market, they renamed the midrange
line. The whole "family of servers" was rechristened "System i". So
now..

The "System i" includes the AS/400, the iSeries, and the System i5. The
System i5 the upgrade for the others.

Any AS/400 you have is now also System i.

Any iSeries you have is now also System i.

Any System i5, the latest in this "family of servers", is also a System
i.

We can call it i5, until such possible time as they come up with an i6.

Or, as Trevor suggests, maybe it is a good idea to go with the OS. Even
though the machine and the OS have been designed to work together, it is
the OS that makes it such a great machine.

BTW, before somebody says "confusing", keep in mind that everybody knows
what a Windoze OS is. But there's Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Window 98,
Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and now Vista
(also a Windows OS).

--Alan



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:58 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: I'm about to give up on "System i"

I am also in the middle of writing some documentation and I have started
to
simply use "System i5" as a way to describe the new name. At the
beginning
of the documentation I declare "System i5" to be synonymous with iSeries
and
AS/400 for the sake of the text. I chose to add the "5" because having
a
lower-case "i" in the middle of a sentence causes my mind to grind a
little
when reading that portion.

Am I incorrect in saying "System i5"? Am I referring to anything in
actuality?, being that I am not really specifying the OS (i.e. System
i5OS)
nor am I just specifying the hardware exclusively (i.e. System i).

Thoughts? Opinions?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com