Re: Future of *M36

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Neil,

>The 436 isn't really obsolete.  A 436 (without an OS/400 license) come
>preconfigured as 'SSP dominant' which basically hides the underlying
>OS/400 from the user and the machine 'appears' as though it's running
>SSP (you do still however need to go to DST and make a backup of the
>Licensed Internal Code at least once, preferably twice, or you don't
>have a complete backup to reconstruct the system if you lose a disk).
>If the user doesn't want to cough up the extra for the OS/400 license
>the 436 can still give them better performance, disk capacity, tape
>capacity etc.

 How much is OS/400 for the smallest /400?  I thought it was included?

 -mark

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