RE: Random thoughts from COMMON

Ops, 

        I think I left the good fingers upstairs this morning.  V4R3 not 
R2 is the currently announced last release..

        JMS

On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 bmegenity@ruskin.com wrote:

> I thought I read somewhere (please don't ask me where) that V4R3 was the last 
>to support Novell AND OS/2 on IPCS. Am I getting mixed up again?
> 
> Bill Megenity             bmegenity@ruskin.com            twinstar@sound.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 1998 9:51 AM
> To:   johnearl@toolnet.com
> Subject:      Re: Random thoughts from COMMON
> 
> 
>  So let me get this right. The IPCS will not support Novell after V4R2 
> because Novell is no longer going to have an OS/2 based component.  But 
> IBM is porting the AIX OS to the IPCS ?  Hum, what is it's OS/2 component ??
> 
>       JMS
> 
> On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, John Earl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > mcrump@ballfoster.com wrote:
> > 
> > > 3.) Frank Soltis claimed that the AS/400 can run any AIX application today
> > > without any modifications and that most UNIX applications fall into this
> > > category.  However, it will look and feel like a UNIX application so IBM
> > > encourages the vendor to make the app.  look like an AS/400 application.
> > > He thinks they can essentially be UNIX and essentially eliminate 
>'porting'.
> > > Along with this they think they can run most UNIX applications faster than
> > > similar UNIX machines.....another interesting dilemna.  Similar issues
> > > revolving around NT.......
> > 
> > There was recently a post out on comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc where an IBM'er 
>claimed
> > that IBM had AIX running on the IPCS.  I was able to confirm this at 
>common... it
> > was done for a bid, but IBM didn't get the bid.  Now it's a solution in 
>search of
> > an application - same as the alleged laptop/400
> > 
> > jte
> > 
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