Re: Twinax Card and Win95

Hans & Cheri,

In a message dated 97-05-07 00:25:03 EDT, you write:

> > As someone who has worked on S/38 and AS/400
>  > software development for years, I've always wondered what PC's would
>  > be like if PC users demanded the same level of quality as do AS/400
>  > customers!
>  > 
>  Hans -
>  
>  Excellent point!!  I've been wondering that myself for a long time.

If I could offer:

A.  There would be NO general protection faults.
B.  When a program terminated, there would be no portion of it left in
memory.
C.  All PC's would come with a tape drive and enough memory/disk to
adequately perform their given task, rather than no tape drive and enough
memory to run the OS with no consideration given to applications.
D.  ALL hardware would be "Plug 'n Play", regardless of platform or OS.
 Users wouldn't need to worry with IRQ settings or loading TSR's in the
proper sequence.
E.  Security would be provided with all systems.  You wouldn't be able to
boot from drive A: without a (unique) hardware key and knowing how to select
the proper function code.
F.  AUTOEXEC and .INI files would not be necessary.  The system would
adequately configure itself for base operation, and deleted software would be
DELETED.
G.  All PC's would come with a built-in database.

Just a few ideas.  But then they'd be AS/400's, wouldn't they :-).

IMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"Too many people expect wonders from Democracy, when the most wonderful thing
of all is having it." -- Walter Winchell
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