AS400 and its OS/400 (now IBM i) have Come a Long Way
We want to take you back to history of AS400. We have observed time and again when talking to our customers that no matter the branding changes – veterans still prefer to call it their AS400. Have a look at its journey since 1988 that led the way for today’s IBM AS/400: Did you know this about your IBM iSeries? (AS400 System – Hardware/OS) IBM AS400 i Series (now Power Systems) and its predecessors have had three different OS names, seven different OS versions, and more than twenty revisions. The OS/400 operating system in 1988 has run on 6 different hardware and was called AS400 at that time. At least seventeen different CPUs have run the IBM AS-400 system and its predecessors. Since 1988, IBM has sold more than 50 hardware models to run the product line of IBM AS 400 iSeries All the IBM AS400 software customers can run the software and as 400 databases were created in 1988. According to IBM – “The AS400 systems incorporates a trusted combination of an interactive database, se