RE: V4R3 to V4R4

[Eric Kempter <eric.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's interestig Jim.  So if you could buy an AS/400 with OS/400 for $2000, 
you would run windows et la from the IFS of an AS/400?  Wouldn't Netfinity be a 
better solution?  Can you run any windows, linux, etc software on an AS/400?  
Just curious.

Eric Kempter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 1:09 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: V4R3 to V4R4
> 
> From some of my posts you may get the impression
> that I don't particularly like IBM, and you would be
> right.
> 
> But, on the other hand, I just love the AS/400.  I've
> been in computers since I was knee high to a grasshopper
> (since I was 10) and have worked on everything from
> a Wang with 4k of core memory that you saved programs
> onto audio cassettes, to an IBM 370, Commodore 64,
> TRS80 Coco, Apple II, to PCs running DOS 2.0 to
> PCs running Windows 98, Windows NT and Linux.
> But, by far, the best of all is the AS/400.  The dang this
> is just about bullet proof.  What other machine can you
> keep running for years without IPLing?  Or set up to
> IPL every week and do a backup and forget about it
> but for changing tapes.
> 
> I was a PC programmer before I came to the AS/400,
> and am still a PC programmer, but when I find stuff that
> just doesn't work on my PCs now, I just know it doesn't
> have to be this way.  But it is.
> 
> If I could buy a small AS/400 for the price of a PC, I
> would.  And use it at home.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> John P Carr wrote:
> 
> >         You all might get a kick out of this.
> >
> >         I had a neat experience the other day(12/30),   I just got my NEW
> > 170 for my
> >         home(Small business - EdgeTech).
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
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