Re: AS/400 heritage

["Neil Palmer" <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

That's an excellent suggestion.  Every time some PC bigot drags out the 
tired old "legacy" argument we could pull out that issue of iSeries 
magazine and show them some "legacy" PC's - and the excellent performance 
improvements in the 400 over the years.  Top end memory going from 192MB 
to 128GB.  Disk from 54.8GB to 19TB.  CPW from 20 to 20200.  Legacy system 
my a** !  ;-)

...Neil





Douglas Handy <dhandy1@bellsouth.net>
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2001/05/02 20:00
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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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