RE: why the 16meg space size limit?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe,
> I LOVE the machine. You should have heard me give MI classes at COMMON.
> I do not like what IBM is trying to do to the machine: making it into a
> me-too
> unix look-a-like. And I do not appreciate the "closedness" of the system,
> where almost nobody knows how it REALLY works. At the recent COMMON
> I heard a speaker (at the opening session) shout that the message we
> should give our customers is that the machine does not matter, the OS does
> not matter, the language does not matter. The e-server was just an
> "integrated data switch" (or some other linguistic monstrosity).
> I'm dumbfounded at why you think I hate the machine.
> I would say that the AS/400 architecture ranks up there with the
> RC4000 operating system as one of the foremost jewels of
> computing.

Okay, that's what I thought, Leif <laughing>.  You just have been pounding
on it lately.  I was scared for a moment, because I was planning on diving
into the MI stuff, and I didn't want to learn it from a bitter,
mean-spirited guy <grin>.  Okay, time to buy your book and start learning...

Joe

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