Charles Mills wrote: >Interesting article even if you could care less about the IBM i (AS/400 for >anyone who has been living under a rock for the past 20 years).
"couldn't care less" :) BTW, just to be irritatingly pedantic: IBM i is not really AS/400. It's what AS/400 developed into, but it refers to the current generation of the AS/400 OS (formerly OS/400) running on IBM Power. From Wikipedia: IBM i is an operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and IBM PureSystems. It was named OS/400 when it was introduced with the AS/400 line of computer systems in 1988, was later renamed i5/OS, and was renamed IBM i in 2008 when IBM Power Systems was introduced. So it's confusing, because "AS/400" begat "iSeries" begat "System i" begat "IBM i", only IBM i implies "on Power", whereas the others imply "on bespoke hardware". Sort of as if Apple had renamed Mac OS to macOS when they went to Intel hardware (which is not when they did that). This doesn't really matter nowadays, since anything old enough to be pre-Power is very obsolete, but it's sorta interesting. I find that customers still say "AS/400"; none of the "i" names appear to have ever really caught on. Related: It's "IBM Power", not "PowerPC". PowerPC is the very old precursor to the current generation; this is much like saying your shiny new ThinkPad has a 386-it's sorta kinda in the neighborhood, but really just wrong. Signed, Mr. Pedantic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
