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This is a multipart message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] The same way they do on the bigger iron. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com> Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com 04/12/2002 07:51 AM Please respond to midrange-l To: midrange-l@midrange.com cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers? As you say, for good or ill, probably IE. A problem might arise due to different disk formatting on AS/400s vs Windows. They solved it for Linux, but this might need a separate drive. Speaking of which, how could IBM justify the cost for drives in a laptop that they do on the bigger iron? At 07:43 AM 4/12/02 -0500, you wrote: >This is a multipart message in MIME format. >-- >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >Would it be tricky for the web server to support both this directly >attached device, and lan attached devices? Maybe not. > >What browser would it run? After all, the original thin client browser >would not support Notes and had a statement that it never would. Most of >us, regardless of our likes or dislikes, have to support the latest IE >browser because that is what many people accessing our web site would use. > >Rob Berendt >-- >"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary >safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." >Benjamin Franklin > > > > >Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com> >Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com >04/11/2002 06:57 PM >Please respond to midrange-l > > > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > cc: > Fax to: > Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers? > > >Could there not be some kind of onboard thin client thingy in a box like >this? That could have a minimal emulator, plus a browser, etc. It might >not >end up being a laptop - maybe a bit bigger. > >At 02:15 PM 4/11/02 -0500, you wrote: > >From: James Rich <james@eaerich.com> > > > Even if support was added to OS/400 for PC hardware (specifically >video > > > cards, keyboards, and mouse) it is still ridiculous to think that >OS/400 > > > on portable hardware would topple Microsoft's monopoly. > > > >agreed, of course, but I didn't think that that was what most of > >us had in mind. We would be happy with just having a laptop > >OS/400. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing >list > >To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > >visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > >or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > >Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > >at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > >_______________________________________________ >This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing >list >To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, >visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l >or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com >Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives >at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > > >_______________________________________________ >This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list >To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, >visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l >or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com >Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives >at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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