Re: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400

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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