[OT] AS/400

[Steve Williams]

дамјан г. wrote:
>>(will not mention that it works on AS/400, the best
>>minicomputer(!) ever made).
> 
> 
> Why is it the best minicomputer ever made?
> I really want to know!
> 
> 
HP/3000, taken off the sales list last Halloween.

A joy to work with.

Believe it or not, it was ported to run as a UNIX emulator in the '80s, 
so it could be available forever, but HP's politics killed it.

Gresham's law applied to computing:  bad software drives out good. 
(Perl vs Python, et cetera, et cetera).