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From: John W. Kennedy
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:15

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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> wrote in message
> news:ops113xlmfzgicya@hyrrokkin...
>> Actually they introduced the System 3 in a vareity of models, and they
>> were eventually replaced by the sytem 32, 34, 35, 38 and then the AS400,
>> The 32 came out around 1975, IIRC
>>
> Right.  I completely forgot about the System 3.  It was one of the
> models I never actually programmed.  It was still pretty much a
> batch processing system.

Only the higher models. The lower models were workstation-oriented, and 
the System/32, S/34, and S/36 followed directly on them. (The System/38 
was the successor to the higher System/3 models only in a marketing sense.)

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"

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