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		derleth on May 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip i series aren't mainframes, they're midrange, the replacement for the AS/400 platform. Mainframe stuff is z series, a replacement for the System/390 line.

bkmartin on May 28, 2012 | [–]

And the official term would be IBM i running on Power Systems. Damn IBM and their ever changing name of the most stable platform available.

excuse-me on May 28, 2012 | [–]

If you can't pick it up and throw it out of the window it's a mainframe.

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