Subj : Re: What Is Unix? (was: H
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jan 16 2026 08:16:13

-=> MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

 MP> Before the AS/400 this company had an IBM product that required "drum
 MP> memory," and they apparently broke down and upgraded to the AS/400 once
 MP> that type of memory became scarce... IIRC, they had to start sourcing
 MP> it from Brazil (and maybe used).

 Those things are workhorses - a while back IBM realized you could run a
 DB2 database on bare metal and virtualize a lot of Linux VMs on top of
 that to make a Really Big Web Server.

 I've wanted to build an OS/400 looking menu system for my BBS for the
 longest time...


 
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