Re: Happy i5/OS 2008?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor Perry wrote:
> Here is my question for you. Now that we know i5/OS will run on a Power
> blade, what will you call it then?

AS/400, iSeries, or System i.

Personally, I could care less what hardware it runs on.  I don't think
anyone, except the hardware techs, should care one iota.

Do you make a differentiation between Windows that runs on a 386, 486,
Pentium, Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium 4, etc?  It's just Windows (such
as it is).

> We are a community that always referred to the hardware and the OS by the
> same name. Now we don't have that any more... I guess we should just blame
> IBM for our inferiority. Complex, that is.

The AS/400 didn't refer to hardware.  The AS/400 was (at least as far as
I could tell) (S/38 + 2) *10.

Did the AS/400 change names when we switched from CISC to RISC (I
honestly can't remember).  My gut is saying that it didn't.  That was a
huge change in hardware.  Did I care about the change?  No.  Should I
have cared?  No.  Was it faster, better, stronger?  Yes.  That's all I
cared about.  As far as I was concerned, it was just an OS version and
hardware upgrade.  My software didn't change in the slightest.  My
perception of the machine didn't change either.

Tying the system name to the hardware is a bad idea.  FWIW: I'm glad
they are shifting away from i5.

david