On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM, MG <marcogb at xs4all.nl> wrote: On 13-7-2011 13:05, Sampsa Laine wrote: The RS/6000 is just a AIX / random Unix box, whereas the AS/400 is WEIRD. Personally speaking, I never cared much for AIX myself. IBM also entered the UNIX market relatively late (compared to SGI, HP, DEC and so on). As for the AS/400 platform, now that's an interesting operating system (I usually log onto RZKh.de for that) and the type of system that IBM traditionally peddled. (A bit like what VMS, RT-11, RSX, etc. were to DEC, later Compaq and HP now.) I wouldn't mind having an AS/400 either, it'd make a nice DB2 test environment. Especially those physically smaller systems, like the 9401-P03 with the original CISC processor (before "System i" and what-not, or whatever IBM calls it today). - http://www.flickr.com/photos/31231773 at N02/4468965124/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/31231773 at N02/4468966604/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/31231773 at N02/4468967646/ (The above pictures are of/by the proprietor of IPv7.net, who's also a 'partaker' in HECnet.) - MG Hello! I agree! I've met my share of these IBM boxes, and that one and two others seemed interesting. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."