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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by freeone3000 on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:35PM (#25341442)
"Popular" was a touch sarcastic. AS/400s were most recently called the IBM system I, and are now a discontinued product. IBM still sells mainframes, and they have discontinued the AS/400.
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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by Ghostp4ntsRex on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:11PM (#25341674)
They are most certainly not a discontinued product. We just purchased a brand new Power9 server at work. The model we purchased was just released. Everyone at work still calls it an AS400. They are bulletproof and run many large businesses today. They are also not mainframes but are a class of machines called minicomputers.
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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by freeone3000 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:59AM (#25342375)
IBM Power Series is closer to the RS6000, no? Running real AIX and having a full JCL makes them a far sight better than the RPGII stuff on the AS/400. Night and day.
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Re:Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Auror... by ablekh on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:02AM (#25342387)
IBM AS/400 is not discontinued, but rather has been rebranded as IBM Power System: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power.
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