RE: What is an i5 (iSeries, AS/400)

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I'm getting old and crotchety and don't want to accept progress - or 
maybe I'm just a luddite. But I don't see a distinction between i5/OS & 
OS/400, other than marketing renames. Certainly not to the extent of the 
difference between VM and MVS in the mainframe world. (I probably have 
these terms all wrong - someone please help me!) Seems I remember - 
admittedly from the outside, as I was a lowly office temp at the time - 
that this was a significant shift that required lots of work to convert 
from one to the other. That is certainly not the case with i5/OS & OS/400. 
And in the mainframe world today, at IBM's site, I find this -- "Built upon 
the solid VM/ESA base, z/VM exploits the z/Architecture ..." I can imagine 
a statement like "Built upon the solid OS/400 base, i5OS exploites the 
i/Architecture ..."   ;-)

Vern

At 11:20 AM 3/4/2005, you wrote:
> An i5 is a hardware platform that comes bundled with i5/OS (not OS/400).
> It can be extended via software and sometimes hardware to also run AIX,
> Windows 2000/2003 Server, and 32- and 64-bit Linux distributions from
> Red Hat and Novell (Suse).  It can execute any applications designed for
> any of those operating systems provided that OS is installed and
> configured with sufficient resources.

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