Re: AS/400 heritage

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evelyn,

>What
>features made it so great for the time? What were its limitations? Were
>your loyalties to the System/36 or the System/38, and why?

I know the iSeries magazine is "preaching to the choir", but if you are going to
do this, at least put side-by-side comparisons of the highlighted vintage model
vs current specifications (with prices).

Then at least it can be used to show others that the iSeries is not our
grandfather's 400, and we have had dramatic increases in speeds & feeds too.
The machine seems to have a hard time shaking the legacy image, even while it
has some of the latest SOI technologies and 7th-generation 64-bit processing.

Nostalgia has its place, but PLEASE make sure the Heritage series plays up how
that was then and this is now.  The 400 has a somewhat unique ability to support
radical changes in hardware technology.  The folks who cry "legacy" already are
missing the boat on what the 400 really represents -- don't foster more images
of the 400 being an "old" machine.

To put it in perspective, maybe you could also show a state-of-the-art 1988 PC
(a PS/2 model 80?) vs today.  What have they had, a 100-fold increase in speed
compared to our 1000-fold?  And how many new OS releases compared to us?

Doug
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