AS/400s in the Champaign area

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Apr 19 12:57:52 2002

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> Is this the black or beige series of AS/400? There should be the telltale
> IBM data tage that has something in the order of 9406-XXX (the XXX is the
> model variant, explaing the options from the factory, and consequently the
> processor type and number). There are different sizes/models within the 9406
> line, and that dash number will tell a lot about it. There are models like
> 170, 250, 730, 740, etc. I don't know a hell of a lot about the older beige
> units but I think they are for OS/390 instead of OS/400 anyway.

S/390's run OS/390. AS/400's run OS/400. OS/390 is mainframe MVS.
AS/400 hardware isn't capable enough to run that kind of stuff. OS/390 is
*not* an older version of OS/400. They have nothing to do with each
other.

Peace... Sridhar

> => -----Original Message-----
> => From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> => [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Christopher Smith
> => Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:13 AM
> => To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> => Subject: RE: AS/400s in the Champaign area
> =>
> =>
> => Ok guys, it seems I messed up in the last message. I've just
> => found something that says that the "9406" on this machine --
> => "machine type" as they call it -- really doesn't tell you a
> => thing about the CPU being RISC or CISC.
> =>
> => So I give up, how _do_ you tell? :)
> =>
> => Chris
> =>
> => Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
> => Amdocs - Champaign, IL
> =>
> => /usr/bin/perl -e '
> => print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
> => '
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 12:57:52 BST