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Re: Open Source RPG ?

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/12/2006 11:58:16 AM:

> An open source RPG could useful for porting RPG applications to other
> platforms (*nix), but IBM would have nothing to gain anything by this.

It isn't like the RPG compiler generates a machine instruction to do a 
CHAIN.  It makes a call into some services provided by OS/400.  Where are 
all of these services going to come from on other operating systems? 
Especially given that most of these databases do not have the same 
concepts.

Mark


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