Re: Random thoughts from COMMON

["Jeffrey M. Silberberg" <silbrbrg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 So let me get this right. The IPCS will not support Novell after V4R2 
because Novell is no longer going to have an OS/2 based component.  But 
IBM is porting the AIX OS to the IPCS ?  Hum, what is it's OS/2 component ??

        JMS

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, John Earl wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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