Re: FW: OS/400 upgrades for CISC

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:01 PM 4/21/97 -0400, you wrote:

Hi Dave,

CISC is deader than a doornail.  You can rant and rave all you want, but
CISC is dead.  If anything, your ranting and raving has driven another nail
into the casket (congrats).  Everyone is talking about V4R1 and V4R2
without parity releases for CISC!

You can stay on CISC.  You can move painless to RISC.  You can completely
rewrite you application to run on NT, Unix (pick you flavor, they're all
different) or mainframe (I think you're brighter than that). Or else you
can protect your investment and migrate to RISC.

Have a pleasant day.

Al Barsa  


>DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:
>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 :-)  


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