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I kind of wished I would have got a position at some company to work on an AS/400. Back in the day, my company was looking for a new "solution" and considered m

I kind of wished I would have got a position at some company to work on an AS/400. Back in the day, my company was looking for a new "solution" and considered most everything, including an IBM. But eventually we went UNIX. What I'm curious, though, is in the world of a random back office developer, how much of the, well, "inner beauty" of the machine would I have encountered. Most of the cool Unix-y stuff happened mostly through ad hoc integrations with random Stuff as circumstances presented themselves, and I don't know how much of the AS/400 a random (likely) COBOL programmer would have delved into.

EdwardCoffin 4y ago
My impression from reading the book was that it had a beautiful internal architecture that I imagined would largely be hidden from the user. I think as a say COBOL programmer on an AS/400, one would pretty much see it as not much different from say a mainframe. This opinion is entirely formed without experience though.
- anyfoo 4y ago
  It's still very different from a developer/"system user" perspective (I don't say enduser because then you are kept away from most anyway). A lot of concepts one takes for granted are different.