Re: AS/400 Ads - I actually saw one!!!

[Vernon Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul

At 10:57 PM 5/18/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>*snip*   ...runs your legacy back-office apps in 64-bit glory...   *snip*
>
>
>I thought it was sixty-FIVE bits...  Thought IBM added one of their own
>just to say they had more.   (:
>
>At any rate, is the AS/400 the only computer running 64 (er... 65) bits
>these days?
>
>--Paul E Musselman
>PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

Am attending the Connections Conference. Frank Soltis gave keynote
yesterday. There he said that, yes, the 400 is the only system that is
truly and, most of all, completely 64-bit. I don't remember the details,
but even HP isn't quite there.

He said that the new 64-bit Intel chip will require rewites of _both_ OS's
and applications. This means that these chips won't be supported until well
into the next millennium.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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