RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V2 #715

["BORING, David" <dboring@xxxxxxx>]

How about a port to run natively on a CISC AS/400?

Let's get those 3xx boxes and white boxes out of the back room and put them
to a better use than being a door stop.

David Boring
Systems Engineer
MCI Systemhouse
Direct: (562) 809-5460
E-mail: dboring@shl.com


-----Original Message-----
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:00:00 -0800
From: "Goins, Kirk      : CO IR" <KGoins@lhs.org>
Subject: RE: From the Comdex Rumor Department...

What you end up with is super reliable HW and and criptic OS that takes a
masters degree to figure out the commands.

Don't get me too wrong, Linux is great for what it does under the covers.
One of the strong points of  the AS/400 is it's OS/400 user interface/cmd
structure. What sold the Sys/36 was ease of use and reliabilty, Same is true
for the 400.

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From: rsolomon@ORIENTAL.COM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: From the Comdex Rumor Department...
Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 8:40AM



hmm, linux ported to AS/400...

hmm, notebook sized AS/400...

could this be a marriage made in heaven?

russ solomon
systems engineer
oriental trading company
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