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From: drake@sd2.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
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Subject: Re: IBM RISC System/6000  AS/400 (actually a diversion on the topic)
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Date: 4 Mar 90 08:54:16 GMT
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In article <1586@zipeecs.umich.edu> billms@eecs.umich.edu (Bill Mangione-Smith) writes:
>Just what is the installed software base on the as/400?  Thats a reasonably
>new machine, isn't it.  We are not talking decades here.

Well, maybe not decades, but a long, long time.  The AS/400 is relatively
new, but as it's upwardly compatible with System/36 and System/38 there are
a LOT of AS/400s and a LOT of programs available for them.  

Opinions are my own.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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