8 Jan
2008
8 Jan
'08
11:07 p.m.
I was at I think the 1990 or 1991 New York Computer Show at Jacob
Javitts and IBM had a booth setup with a ton of the small BA440 sized
AS400's and they were streaming video across a network onto a
presentation screen from one, running Novell on another, I thought
perhaps they were running a derivative of OS/2 (but I'm not totally
certain) and then running others with standard AS/400 apps on others.
The IBM rep's were touting their abilities and DEC Vax's were mentioned
several times during the course of casual conversations I overheard
throughout the booth. They were really pushing the AS/400's as the end
all, beat all workhorse machine.
Curt
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.
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>