Re: CODE/400

[Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@xxxxxxxx>]

Simon Coulter wrote:

> /Sounds like Flex/Edit was an incomplete environment.  Useful but to awkward 
>to keep using it.
> CODE/400 was around before Flex/Edit and it was complete so why didn't you 
>use that -- oh
> silly me it only ran on OS/2 and popular opinion said that was a dead 
>operating system (notice
> they're still saying that 4 or 5 years later).  CODE/400 could have been the 
>tool ("killer
> application"?) that brought AS/400 shops to OS/2 but no, those shops are too 
>conservative to
> try such a novel idea (who else has done this? we don't want to be the 
>first!).  Now, of
> course IBM's AS/400 developers are lending credence to that idea by not 
>provided proper OS/2
> support for ClientAccess, etc.
>

I suppose even IBM is convinced OS/2 is dead excepting a few die hard fans like 
you and Chris R
:-)

--
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net


+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---