History
The System/38 was a descendant of the abandoned IBM Future Systems project, which had been designed as the replacement for the System/360 and System/370 mainframe architectures. The midrange predecessors to the System/38 included the System/3, System/32, and System/34. The System/38 offered more capacity than the previous System/34. Somewhat confusingly, the System/38 chronologically preceded the System/36, which was a successor to the System/34.
The System/38 was superseded by the AS/400 (which also supported System/36 data & programs, at least to some extent). The AS/400 evolved into the iSeries, which in turn evolved into the System i. The System/38 legacy lives on in the enterprise-class IBM POWER Systems server which superseded System i in 2008.
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