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0 pointsInclinedPlane14y ago0 comments

Confusingly, IBM's mainframes run on the "i" operating system.

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derleth14y ago· 2 in thread

i series aren't mainframes, they're midrange, the replacement for the AS/400 platform. Mainframe stuff is z series, a replacement for the System/390 line.

bkmartin14y ago

And the official term would be IBM i running on Power Systems. Damn IBM and their ever changing name of the most stable platform available.

excuse-me14y ago

If you can't pick it up and throw it out of the window it's a mainframe.

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