[HECnet] Towards the Mouth of Madness....

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Ah, so that's your specification for an interesting system: weird with DECnet :-)
The AS/400 is a nice choice then . 48 bit architecture, was supposed to replace the S/38 (it's code compatible with it) and be a VAX killer at the same time. 
Which obviously didn't work since every home has a VAX now as Johnny tells us repeatedly (or did I get something wrong ;-)
Anyway, I've configured the IP stack on one of them, 10 years ago and what I remember is this. 
It follows the IBM way of doing things : nearly everything is menu driven. A system manager hardly ever types commands, he just fills in forms. The result ends up in a file which gets compiled or assembled with a bunch of others. AIX has something similar called SMIT (if my memry serves me well). 
Well, I prefer to type my own commands and DCL scripts. 
I'd like to get a small Unisys (n  e Burroughs) A4 though. 
Hans
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On 12 Jul 2011, at 21:34, Mark Benson wrote:
Don't buy an AS400. Buy an RS/6000 - you can pick up a decent one for anywhere between 50GBP and 5000 GBP :D


The RS/6000 is just a AIX / random Unix box, whereas   the AS/400 is WEIRD.

I like weird.

Sampsa