Inside the AS/400
by Soltis, Frank G · first published 1997
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That looks great, too bad it's currently $80 used! I really enjoyed Soltis' more formal "Inside the AS/400"[1], available for a mere 77¢! [1] http://smile.amazon.com/Inside-AS-400-Frank-Soltis/dp/188241...
on “Welcome to the public AS/400” ↗I never used the i series (formerly AS/400, and System/38 before that), but reading Inside the AS/400 by Frank G. Soltis made a huge impression on me. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the details.
on “What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]” ↗i Series (System/38, AS/400) is very interesting to learn about, even today. "Inside the AS/400" book by Frank G. Soltis is good, "AS/400: Designed for the Cloud" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTZVyRDnds) is inspiring, and "Laughing Boardroom" commercials series aren't bad either.
on “Four DB2 Code Bases?” ↗…list of DB2 versions. My understanding is that the iSeries DB2 was really more a marketing name applied to the iSeries database. Here are a couple of supporting quotations out of Frank G. Soltis's book Inside the AS/400 (both from page 120). Soltis was the chief architect of the AS/400: IBM selected the name DB2 for OS/400 to reflect that it is part of the IBM DB2 family of relational database products. The family…
on “Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't” ↗