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Jerome Draper wrote:

> I believe the twinax spec is published by IBM.  I remember that IBM charged
> $100,000 for documentation to internal AS400 workings   Then, when Microsoft
> wanted to subscirbe, IBM withdrew support completely with the thinking that
> since they didn't want MS to have it nobody could have it.

I doubt IBM ever offered to sell the "internal working" of the 400 to
anybody for any amount. They have been forced by the courts to reveal
certain things about their 390 family, but the 400 stuff remains in
the vault....

> I believe that the AS400 would be a better system today if IBM would have
> been more forthcoming as to delivering system documentation to inventive
> technical folks.

They have given more "access" to this machine than any other box they
have ever sold. I don't know what the current API count is, but what
would be some examples of things developers "need to know" that isn't
currently available ???


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