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>Thanks to this, an administrator seeing the string 123456/QUSER/QZDASOINIT immediately knows who and what launched it, without having to map mysterious PID numbers to service names.

did old UNIXes didn't have process names or something ? Those are exactly same information (pid/user/process name) UNIX derivatives or hell, windows get

Author seems to be blindsided by the "different" enough to not have any useful insight in it

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The article was kind of terrible. If it had more emojis I would have said it was an AI generated summary. To really understand how strange AS/400 if you need to read Frank Soltis's book (he was the original architect of it at IBM).

It's cute to see folks who have completely drunk the in-house koolaid try to communicate to outsiders, and we're better off for it. I really struggled to understand OS/400 coming in with a working knowledge of Unix/Linux, concepts as simple as creating a text file document in OS/400 don't translate at all.

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