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Not a POWER Mainframe, no. But AS/400's come in many sizes. The smallest ones are roughly the size of a standard workstation
by CursedSilicon 1y ago
Not a POWER Mainframe, no. But AS/400's come in many sizes. The smallest ones are roughly the size of a standard workstation
- pjmlp 1y agoBack in 1994, they were small enough like a big PC tower, I used to seat on one occasionally, that was out of order. One of my Summer intern jobs was to run backups every few days on a AS/400 system. That "seat" was the old one that was yet to be collected.
- RaftPeople 1y ago> Back in 1994, they were small enough like a big PC tower, Back then their model lineup ranged from the small size like you mention to approx 3 or 4 refrigerator size at the high end. When I did some system work out at Costco in the 90's they had 4 of the largest models connected together in one system image (sysplex I think).
- pjmlp 1y agoIndeed, never saw other sizes in real, only on magazine ads.
- yencabulator 1y agoJust for completionism, two decades back the absolute smallest zSeries was a "rolling box", low and squat, that just barely fit into an office building elevator. Think of a short rack tipped on its side with wheels, but all a single computer. IBM loaned us one to port our Linux software to it. Normal zSeries are like a custom rack to multiple racks, except again all a single computer. The smallest iSeries I've seen was essentially an "oversize tower PC" form factor.