[rescue] AS/400? Anyone?

Mark md.benson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 09:07:47 CST 2008


From: Sridhar Ayengar
> Only person I know who worked on AS/400 thinks they are the spawn of
> Satan. I believe eventually the company in question migrated to RS/
> 6000 and ended up with a huge server room with a small clump of RS/
> 600s looking lonely in 1 corner and an Air-con unit they didn't need
> anymore :)

>It does certain things very well, but >it's not really a general-purpose
>architecture by any stretch of the
>imagination.

Have IBM ever done anything that is a good General Purpose machine? A lot of
people think POWER is too floating point biased. Cell BE definitely is.

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Mark Benson



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