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Trevor Perry wrote:

The need to promote IBM i to the users is not required. It is the IMAGE of
the platform to the industry, to the community, to business, to management

Yes, and the current image is that of a box whose manufacturer changes its name more often than some people change their socks.

As far as the physical hardware is concerned, the AS/400 has *ALWAYS* been a virtual machine. It has ALWAYS been implemented in software, running on top of a lower-level processor, NEVER in hardware. Although there may have been TALK of implementing a processor that actually executed MI directly, that idea NEVER WENT BEYOND TALK, assuming it ever got that far.

Hardware changes are completely irrelevant. An AS/400 is a box, ANY box, that is set up to execute AS/400 software. Period. If someone came up with the software to implement MI, NMI, Single Level Store, LIC, "the operating system formerly known as OS/400," and so forth, on my beat-up 486 DOS-only notebook, then IT would, while running that software, be an AS/400.

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JHHL

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