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“Mini” is just a marketing name at this point. The “i” is just a POWER machine - a micro - running a weird operating system.
by trasz 4y ago
“Mini” is just a marketing name at this point. The “i” is just a POWER machine - a micro - running a weird operating system.
- rahen 4y agoIt's not even marketing since IBM doesn't use this terminology. But i is still quite removed from the micro standards: POWER, EBCDIC, COBOL, RPG, 5250 terminals, and the SLIC/TIMI/LPAR abstractions. The typical "micro" app would use x86, UTF-8, Java/C++/Rust/Go on top of a general public system like Linux. Well at least both use 8 bits words, it hasn't always been the case.