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Re: MS to publish source code of windows

From: Steve Richter <srichter@autocoder.com>
> Opening the source code would breath a lot of life into our system.

AFAIK, IBM does not develop OS/400 on the AS/400 but on
RS/6000 or equivalent. OS/400 images or objects are then
transferred over (Think of changing SLIC on a running AS/400)
maybe as PTFs or something like it. So the whole "infrastructure"
around the source of OS/400 must also be opened up. Very likely,
the developers (us) must adopt a similar way of working (i.e. not
using the AS/400 as our development platform). This is not going
to happen, but you are correct, the AS/400 would get a new lease
on life. Only problem is that it is doubtful if IBM even want this
rather than slowly to bleed the platform dry and get rid of it.

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