Re[2]: "stable" platforms

[ericadelong@xxxxxxxx]

I seem to recall reading (probably gossip) about how IBM was looking into 
licensing OS/400 on other hardware platforms.  This was around the time when IBM
was involved with Talingent (is that correct?) and designing the reference 
standards for personal PowerPC workstations (whatever happened to.... oh yeah! 
MAC!). 

Anyway, my recollection is that IBM demonstrated OS/400 as primary environment 
could run additional OS's as a sub-process (ie. AS/436 SSP running under OS/400)
and that in theory, they could offer OS/400 servicing multiple OS environments 
(Talingent). The idea extended to porting OS/400 to the PowerPC reference PC. 
Something about OS/400 being the main source of revenue for the AS/400 division 
and wanting to ca$h in on mainstream OS market.

Or maybe coffee(JAVA?) kills brain cells and I'm now totally delusional..... ;/

Eric A DeLong
ericadelong@pmsc.com

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I'm afraid that we'll be living with Win9x for some time to come.  And changes 
will start to
occur just about the time CA/400 makes peace with Windows :-)
     
Now if we could port OS/400 to a desktop.....
     
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