RE: CODE/400

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't want to start up an OS/2 debate again, but OS/2 is far from
dead, and won't die as long as many of the large banks are using it.  I
guess for some strange reason they didn't think that rebooting hundreds
or thousands of PC's several times a day was acceptable.   :-)



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Mahadevan [SMTP:mahadevan@fuse.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 1998 1:10 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: CODE/400
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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