9 Jan
2008
9 Jan
'08
2:02 p.m.
Michael B. Brutman wrote:
I don't know if IBM created the AS/400 as a VAX killer. I doubt it.
I've only ever come across it in connection with PR1ME hardware. I'd always
thought of IBM and DEC as selling to different markets in those days, somehow.
The AS/400 is a direct descendent of the S/38. The
S/38 was designed
and built by the people who brought you the S/36, S/34, and earlier
machines.
JOOI, is there anything significant in the even model numbering? (e.g. I don't
think I've ever heard of a S/35, S/37... were there architectural reasons for
the numbering, or was it something like "the odd numbers are development
versions of the subsequent even-numbered machines"?)
cheers
Jules