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  • Subject: RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V2 #510
  • From: "Ira Chandler" <ira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:50:16 -0400
  • Importance: Normal
  • In-Reply-To: <199808311917.OAA02449@midrange.com>

        > ...
        > If you want to calculate the "Schroedinger wave equation and
        > Mandelbrot Polynomial while simultaneously controlling a robot
        > that is performing open heart surgery, or design an enhancement 
      > to the space shuttle", then by all means use Unix.  If you want 
      > to run your business then you want the Ultimate Business Server 
      > - an AS/400.
      > Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~      

Bull!  We control stuff in real time with the AS/400.
The HELL you can't control a robot -

Ya wanna talk about robots, we control conveyor
systems and diverters with ** SPLIT-SECOND ** response for 
companies like London Fog, Maxwell Shoe, JC Whitney, 
Duck Head, Seiko Watch, Reynolds Metals, TRW, Mikasa,
Archway Cookies (my favorite, they send cookies!) 
and hundreds of others...

One install has the AS/400 REPLACING $280,000 worth of 
conveyor control stinking PCs running NT, with a software
solution running totally on the AS/400 for about $100,000.
The conveyor company who put in the $2M conveyor system 
was not happy about losing the control layer to the 
DINOSAUR AS/400.  We control 35 decision points with 
divert responses in the 200ms range!

At SEIKO, we control their pick-to-light system from the
AS/400, as well as taking the carton ID and weight from 
an inline scale and calculating the divert destination
based on the validity of the weight.  IN 160 MILLISECONDS!

Screw UNIX.
Screw NT.

Ira Chandler, Technical Services, ROI Corporation
ira@roiconnect.com   800-396-7641 x512  www.roiconnect.com

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