Re: FW: OS/400 upgrades for CISC

[Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@xxxxxxxx>]

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> 
> CISC is GONE.  The number of machines doesn't matter, the number of
> applications doesn't matter.  The number of us that "wish it weren't so"
> doesn't matter.  We can want it with "all our hearts" and it doesn't matter.
>  IBM wants to sell more hardware, and they're not going to do it with CISC.
>  RISC is the future, and YOUR only choice is to decide when you're going to
> implement it.  You don't need RISC to be Y2K compliant, and you don't need it
> to take advantage of most of the new internet technologies.  If you're SO
> DARN HOT on using the latest stuff, why not upgrade to the latest hardware?
>  You probably need it anyway...

Dean:

CISC is not gone.  There is no reason why CISC cannot run RISC V3R7 type
software.  CISC is not a 286 in a Pentium world.  IBM has gone ahead and
brainwashed a lot of people that RISC is the only way to go.  If
everybody starts upgrading at the drop of the hat to the latest
hardware, IBM will be the richest company in the world, and the
consumers will be paying through it past Y2K :-)  

I am sorry I am unable to convince you guys of the necessity of the
upgrades on V3R2.  But you guys (Neil, Chris, John) all have a point and
I get it loud and clear.

end of my pathetic soapbox.

-- 
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net
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