8 Jan
2008
8 Jan
'08
11:29 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In reading some stupid web site today that claimed to
have a canonical
list of "top 50 arguments of computing" (e-week? someplace I normally
ignore), they had the "DEC vs. IBM" argument in which they claimed
that AS/400 was created as a "VAX killer" by IBM.
Is this really true? I never heard of an AS/400 described that way.
The original "VAX killer" was the IBM 9370 (or so I was told
when I was working on a mixed DEC/IBM site back in the 1990s).
I've never heard an AS400 described that way either, but by then
I was firmly entrenched at DEC sites (and then DEC) so I wouldn't
have been in a position to hear such gossip anyway.
Wouldn't surprise me to hear the phrase re-used though.
Antonio
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