RE: Cheaper Servers?

Jeff Bull wrote (in part):

>... I never mentioned Intel processors, I used the term 'laptop', perhaps I
>could have used the term 'portable'.

Adam Lang wrote (in part):
>
>Nope.  Doubt it would work.  Part of AS/400 (and Mac for that point too)
>robustness is the fact of a limited set of hardware to support.
>
>If you have IBM developing OS/400 for Intel AND the millions of hardware
>possible, it will tank.


And therein lies a solution (maybe).  One other feature that both the
AS/400 and Mac have in common is the processor on which the software
runs:  The Power PC.

Granted, the AS/400 version uses a superset of the instruction set,
with tweaks for security.  But would it be that difficult to write an
emulator to run on Mac hardware (including laptops) to emulate the
full AS/400 instruction set...

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com