https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
Gives some good insight into portability on the different hardware.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yer right!
>
> And http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/index.html
> would seem to imply that the hardware/firmware is the same for AIX and i.
> Well, it says that PowerVM can run them both, but does not actually *say* at
> the same time on the same hardware/firmware, but I would think that would be
> the case.
>
> Charles
>
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> Actually I think IBM System i is still valid.  Yes, back around the 2008
> timeframe, IBM merged their iSeries and pSeries (IIRC) hardware into the
> power line, so now both System i and System p run on the same hardware line
> (I don't remember if they are identical up to the OS or if they run
> different firmware on the iron).  The difference between them is the System
> p is in the operating system.  The System p runs either AIX or Linux and the
> System i runs whatever OS/400 morphed into.
>
> I extrapolated the above from
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/about.html
>
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