RE: Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

Trevor,

I understand most of what you've been saying these many years. But I'm
unclear about the statement " If you stopped calling the S/36 that name when
the AS/400 came out in 1988." I worked on a System/36 well after 1988, even
on an AS/236 model. We didn't stop calling it a S/36. Maybe I erred, but I
don't understand why I would have.

Now, I do specify that most of our company's applications were ported from a
S/36 to the iSeries (as it was called then) running under the 36
environment. Is that to what you were referring?

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

Bob,

Now come up to 2008, when Power Systems were announced. Power Systems was
a major hardware announcement merging the System i and System p hardware -
in fact, a bigger deal than S/36 and S/38 to AS/400. At the same time, it
was announced that Power Systems can run IBM i, AIX and Linux - not just a
single OS.

More than a faceplate change.

If you stopped calling the S/36 that name when the AS/400 came out in
1988, then you should have stopped calling IBM i on Power by any of its
previous names when it was announced in 2008.

Trevor


On 9/27/11 2:44 PM, "Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I understand the point being made and this is straying further from the
original topic. Windows originally ran on top of DOS. You could leave
Windows and still be in DOS. so i don't see the comparison your making
there.
I also don't think it is the same thing as changing names for marketing.
The new systems are not AS/400's they are Power hardware, but the
original
name change from AS/400 was just that, a name change The system was not
different. the architecture changed from system 36 to AS/400, nothing
changed from AS/400 to Iseries at the announcement. I was at Common and
saw the keynote where they showed the new Iseries by replacing the old
AS/400 cover with a new one.