AS/400 a "VAX killer"?

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. They also had some weird ideas about DEC vs. IBM networking described in that argument, as if neither company supported TCP/IP until their proprietary networks (DECnet and SNA) were forced to relinquish ground to open protocols. OK, googling brings up the link. "Network World" is the culprit: <http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-dec-ibm.html?nwwpkg=50arguments> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>