The AS/400 Lessons Come Back Around With Power9 Systems
December 11, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan
For many years before I took the job as Systems Editor at The Register and in the years since I left that post, the joke about any new system or device was: “Yes, but can it run Crysis?” Those of us writing stories would bend a few sentences around the idea, particularly with Linux systems, which if you equipped them with the WINE Windows emulator might allow said device to indeed run that first-person shooter game that was popular from 2007 through 2013.
As we think about the new “Witherspoon” Power9 server that IBM launched last week, we can’t help …
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