RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V1 #635

[jdraper@xxxxxxx (Jerry Draper)]

>And, finally, the fact that I am quote "high profile" is the very reason I 
>did it. I was sick and tired of them shipping PTF after PTF after PTF 
>without fixing the TWINAX issue. I spent months without productive work 
>waiting and waiting for a fix. All I got back from IBM was

As a vendor of CA/400 replacement products I hear the "sick and tired" stuff
a lot.

>NOW HAVING SAID ALL THAT.  The people at IBM that fixed the twinax problem 
>with a new 5250 emulation card should be given a medal. While I still have 
>several issues with CA/400, I can now connect to the 400 on a regular 
>basis. Granted I only have 64 meg of RAM, and CA does eat up most of that, 
>I can still launch MS Word, and CA and a file transfer. And typically only 
>of them locks up after several hours of work. But that would just be the 
>design of Windows.

It is not the design of Windows because the Synapse products work perfectly
without locking up at all.  The inherent design of IBM and IBM Clone twinax
cards that rely on shared memory, DOS TSR's, and hardware interrupts is the
problem.  It's not fair to blow this off on Windows.  The Synapse twinax
card has been running perfectly in Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, and NT (new)
for some time.  Unlike the IBM card designed for PC-AT computers, it has a
microprocessor and 64K RAM on the card.  In News/400 tests it transfered
data twice as fast as a BOS card in IBM mode and three times faster than BOS
in so-called "stealth" mode.  It's the card.

BTW, I think Synapse is the only company with a twinax card that runs under
NT.  First again.  Furthermore, writer Roger Pence says that the Synapse
WinAPPC file transfer (which includes the coveted SQL front end and is the
only product with dBase output support) runs 6 times faster than IBM CA/400.
ON, and ON, and ON.  There is a difference.

>
>I think if Personal Communications included an SQL-like interface for file 
>transfers, I'd have absolutely no use for CA/400 today.

You do have a choice you know.

Jerry




Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com

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