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AS/400

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AS/400

(Application System/400) The earlier generation and original name of IBM's iSeries and i5 families of midrange business computers. Introduced in 1988, the AS/400 evolved into the iSeries in 2000 and the i5 in 2004. When first introduced, the AS/400 was considered a "minicomputer."

Designed to Consolidate
An enhanced version of System/38, which included an integrated relational DBMS, the AS/400 was designed to consolidate System/38 and System/36 into one line. System/38 programs ran intact, but System/36 programs had to be recompiled.

The AS/400 served in a variety of networking configurations: as a host or intermediate node to other AS/400s, as a remote system to mainframe-controlled networks and as a network server to PCs.

POWER Based
In 1994, IBM introduced the AS/400 Advanced System/36, a PowerPC-based version of the AS/400 that natively ran the System/36 SSP operating system and its applications. IBM's POWER CPUs were used in subsequent AS/400 models. See iSeries and i5.

A Small AS/400
The AS/400 has been used in businesses of all sizes, and thousands of applications have been written for it. (Image courtesy of International Business Machines Corporation. Unauthorized use not permitted.)

(computer)AS/400 - An IBM minicomputer for small business and departmental users, released in 1988 and still in production in October 1998.

Features include a menu-driven interface, multi-user support, terminals that are (in the grand IBM tradition) incompatible with anything else including the IBM 3270 series, and an extensive library-based operating system.

The machine survives because its API layer allows the operating system and application programs to take advantage of advances in hardware without recompilation and which means that a complete system that costs $9000 runs the exact same operating system and software as a $2 million system. There is a 64-bit RISC processor operating system implementation.

Programming languages include RPG, assembly language, C, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, and REXX. Several CASE tools are available: Synon, AS/SET, Lansa.

http://as400.ibm.com/.


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