[NTLUG:Discuss] offtopic: is the AS400 considered a mainframe?

[Chris Cox]

Lenrek Xunil wrote:
> Is the IBM AS400 considered a mainframe?  I have heard people at work
> refer to it as a mainframe, but I never thought about it that way.

No... not really.  It's a partitionable machine though.  It's based
(now) on IBM's Power5 architecture... pretty fast box... can run
AS400, AIX and Linux on the thing.

> 
> Also, is there AS400 emulation in Linux?  Does it work well?  Just
> curious.  Thanks.

Not that I'm aware of.