Talk:IBM i

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How about a blurb on "SSP" (System Service Program), the OS for the S/32, S/34 and S/36 minis as well as "CPF" (Control Program Facility) for the S/38? Project "Silverlake" was IBM's effort to merge the two OSes into what is now known as "OS/400"

[edit] Operating systems vs application hosts

About the sentence Depending on your point of view, i5/OS and all previous versions, are not actually operating systems. They are in fact application hosts. at the end of the page: If i5/OS is not an operating system, what part of the system on the System i is? Isn't i5/OS managing the hardware and software resources on the system? A lot of it via the SLIC, which is also a part of i5/OS.

I would like to suggest to remove this sentences...

Stephanvaningen 21:08, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] i5/OS on pSeries

AFAIK, AIX can run on i5 (or newer) machines, but i5/OS (or OS/400) can't run on pSeries. If this is not true, put back the reference to pSeries machines, but for now, I'm going to remove it. Ayengar 17:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Both System i and System p are based upon the same Power processors so AIX and i5/OS can run on either system. IBM restricts which System p models i5/OS can run on but this is a marketing restriction, not a technical restriction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robinsg uk (talk • contribs) 13:15, 9 October 2007 (UTC)