From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:27:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:27:09 -0400 Received: from munchkin.spectacle-pond.org ([209.192.197.45]:12293 "EHLO munchkin.spectacle-pond.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:26:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:26:54 -0400 From: Michael Meissner To: Rob Landley Cc: Kai Henningsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penguicon-comphist@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Message-ID: <20010626172654.B588@munchkin.spectacle-pond.org> In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> <83WVxfbXw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <01062611162702.12583@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01062611162702.12583@localhost.localdomain>; from landley@webofficenow.com on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:16:27AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 25 June 2001 15:23, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > The AS/400 is still going strong. It's a virtual machine based on a > > relational database (among other things), mostly programmed in COBOL (I > > think the C compiler has sizeof(void*) == 16 or something like that, so > > you can put a database position in that pointer), it doesn't know the > > difference between disk and memory (memory is *really* only a cache), and > > these days it's usually running on PowerPC hardware. > > > > ISTR there's a gcc port for the AS/400. Oh, and it does have normal BSD > > Sockets. These days, it's often sold as a web server. > > > > Main customer base seems to be medium large businesses and banks. > > The AS400 seems to be based out of Austin. We hear a lot about it around > here... Ummm, the AS/400 was based out of Rochester, Minnesota at least initially. It was the follow to System/3 -> System/36 -> System/38, and customers originally programmed it in RPG-III and Cobol. Now that AS/400's are based on special PowerPC's, the home may have moved to Austin, which is the PowerPC/AIX center. The AS/400 line was intended to be the mid-range system, between the mainframes (360 -> 370 -> 3080 -> 3900 -> ???) and the PCs. -- Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group) PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482