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OS/400 was developed alongside the AS/400. IBM introduced the AS/400 specifically as a "midrange system". Source: me, two decades doing IBM sysprog on AS/400s
by throwawayallday 4y ago
OS/400 was developed alongside the AS/400. IBM introduced the AS/400 specifically as a "midrange system".
Source: me, two decades doing IBM sysprog on AS/400s and z/OS.
- lproven 4y agoYes, no argument there. All I'd say is this: "midrange" is an IBM sales concept, and I don't think it was ever really used much outside IBM. "Minicomputer" is a generally-accepted industry term, or at least, it was once. Minicomputers were not specific to IBM, just as mainframes weren't either.