AS/400s in the Champaign area

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sat Apr 20 11:35:45 2002

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > > The do indeed classify the S/390 as a mainframe...because, well,
> > > that's what it is. :-)
> >
> > Not any more - they are all "servers". xSeries, iSeries, pSeries, and
> > zSeries (the z's being the S/390 followups).
>
> Umm, I have to disagree with you there...the machines in question are
> indeed of a mainframe architecture, and some IBMers were calling them
> "servers" many years before the zSeries was even an itch in IBM's
> pants.

That's a mighty big itch.

> Regardless of what industry buzzwords the marketroids are trying to
> take advantage of...those machines implement the S/390 architecture,
> which is a mainframe architecture descended from mainframe
> architectures.

Actually, those machines don't implement ESA/390. They implement z/Arch.
But z/Arch definitely evolved from ESA/390 R4.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 11:35:45 BST