RE: "Microsoft owns 23 AS/400s"

It's just harder to write code that will cause a system crash on the AS/400.
I think people who write bad code are pretty uniformly distributed by
platform and language.  I've written bad code on the 400, the PC, Atari ST
in several different languages.  Stop me before I code again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Coulter [mailto:shc@flybynight.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 4:09 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: "Microsoft owns 23 AS/400s"



Hello Denis,

But remember, it's much harder to write really crappy code on the AS/400
because we have a real operating 
system that protects you from yourself!

I'd like Rochester to use the fact of Microsoft using AS/400s as a sales
tool.  I'd bet 23 of them aren't 
required for simply 'software distribution'. 

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 99 04:30:38 -0500
> From: "Dennis Lovelady" <dennis@lovelady.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: "Microsoft owns 23 AS/400s"

> 
> Hi, Booth:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boothm@ibm.net <boothm@ibm.net>
> Date: Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:08 AM
> 
> 
> >In a meeting yesterday a chief scientist with IBM said "Yes,
> >Microsoft uses still AS/400s. They own 23 of them and are
> >upgrading to new ones this year."
> <snip>
> >He said the programs are all written by Microsoft programmers
> >and in fact are very well written programs and run extremely well.
> 
> Hmmm... sounds like what they said about Win3.1 and Win95 and NT and ....
> Hey!  I wonder if they've introduced GPF's to the AS/400 yet?!?!?!
> 
> OK, back to lurking
> --
> Dennis Lovelady                    Simpsonville, SC
> mail: dennis@lovelady.com
> URL:  http://lovelady.piedmont.net
> ICQ:  5734860
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> "You have to be a real stud hombre cybermuffin to handle 'Windows'"
>         - Dave Barry

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