You Are Much More Than Power Systems, And So Are We

April 13, 2026 Doug McMaster

The AS/400 was born in the age of minicomputers, but that was also when the rise of the personal computer started and eventually led to the revolution of client/server distributed computing. Not only was computing shifted to the PCs on our desks, but also out to file servers, print servers, and application servers that ran all kinds of different platforms, including NetWare, SCO Unix, OS/2 Server, rarely a variant of Unix, what would become Windows Server, and more recently Linux.

Eventually, Windows Server and Linux became not only Web infrastructure and application serving platforms but ran relational databases and sometimes …