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>How are you going to put sizzle in it? I mean, programming AS/400s is >about as unexciting as it gets. No graphics, no hardware arguments, no >real religious wars beyond DOW & DOU, no point & click, no games. No >chance for the "Big Score" with the gazzillion dollar program, and even >though the money is good, the PC world talks of stock options, signing >bonuses in 5 figures, 6 figure salaries, and all sorts of benefits. (Of >course the MS gulags are always overlooked.) With the hollywood >atmosphere of PC programming, why would any bright young person choose >RPG, COBOL, & CL? And therein lies the problem: What company is going to look at their installed AS/400 equpment as 'state of the art,' when there are no graphics, no point and click, no gui? Of -course- Windoze/NT is the better choice for any company, because it has the whiz-bang features of the day! The 'only' thing we have going for us is the only living 65-bit operating system (with Alpha being a close follower at 64. (: ) that doesn't require re-compiling to upgrade to it! -=-Paul E Musselman PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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