RE: Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

["Jerry C. Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>]

Trevor,

I understand most of what you've been saying these many years.  But I'm
unclear about the statement " If you stopped calling the S/36 that name when
the AS/400 came out in 1988."  I worked on a System/36 well after 1988, even
on an AS/236 model.  We didn't stop calling it a S/36.  Maybe I erred, but I
don't understand why I would have.

Now, I do specify that most of our company's applications were ported from a
S/36 to the iSeries (as it was called then) running under the 36
environment.  Is that to what you were referring?

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

Bob,

Now come up to 2008, when Power Systems were announced. Power Systems was
a major hardware announcement merging the System i and System p hardware -
in fact, a bigger deal than S/36 and S/38 to AS/400. At the same time, it
was announced that Power Systems can run IBM i, AIX and Linux - not just a
single OS. 

More than a faceplate change.

If you stopped calling the S/36 that name when the AS/400 came out in
1988, then you should have stopped calling IBM i on Power by any of its
previous names when it was announced in 2008.

Trevor


On 9/27/11 2:44 PM, "Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I understand the point being made and this is straying further from the
> original topic. Windows originally ran on top of DOS. You could leave
> Windows and still be in DOS. so i don't see the comparison your making
> there. 
> I also don't think it is the same thing as changing names for marketing.
> The new systems are not AS/400's they are Power hardware, but the
> original 
> name change from AS/400 was just that, a name change The system was not
> different. the architecture changed from system 36 to AS/400, nothing
> changed from AS/400 to Iseries at the announcement. I was at Common and
> saw the keynote where they showed the new Iseries by replacing the old
> AS/400 cover with a new one.