Re: Random thoughts from COMMON

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

mcrump@ballfoster.com wrote:

> 3.) Frank Soltis claimed that the AS/400 can run any AIX application today
> without any modifications and that most UNIX applications fall into this
> category.  However, it will look and feel like a UNIX application so IBM
> encourages the vendor to make the app.  look like an AS/400 application.
> He thinks they can essentially be UNIX and essentially eliminate 'porting'.
> Along with this they think they can run most UNIX applications faster than
> similar UNIX machines.....another interesting dilemna.  Similar issues
> revolving around NT.......

There was recently a post out on comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc where an IBM'er claimed
that IBM had AIX running on the IPCS.  I was able to confirm this at common... 
it
was done for a bid, but IBM didn't get the bid.  Now it's a solution in search 
of
an application - same as the alleged laptop/400

jte

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