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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by protomyth on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:21PM (#15153615)
> You couldn't get someone with an AS/400 to move to a Unix workstation if you used a nuclear bomb.

Still can’t. The new bottom end model (iSeries) is cheaper (sub 10k) and will last for another 10 years until a new one is needed. The place I work is buying a new one because it is hitting the end of support (damn thing was bought before 2008). No problems that lasted more than a couple of hours in all that time.

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by bsder on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:05PM (#15153794)
Interesting, seems like IBM still has a couple of competent departments surviving the rampant idiocy.

If you don't mind my asking, what tasks do your folks have the AS/400 doing nowadays?

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by protomyth on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:23PM (#15153846)
Accounting and HR.
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