AS/400s in the Champaign area

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Fri Apr 19 21:55:40 2002

> Some RISC AS/400s ran OS/400 V3R6 or V3R7.

Watch out how you throw arounds those "nevers", "alls", and "nones".
Those words tend to bite people in the butt.

> FWIW the AS/400 is essentially the follow-on to the System/36, to the
> point of having a highly-evolved software environment allowing S/36
> applications to run un-modified on AS/400. Supposedly there is some
> dotted-line relationship to S/38 as well, but I don't have any real
> information about that.

The other way round, architecturally. AS/400 gained most from S/38 and
FS. The whole AS/400 family was designed to replace S/32, S/34, S/36, and
S/38.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 21:55:40 BST