RE: New AS/400 in 2000?

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan:

Any idea where information on this machine can be found?

david

>David,
>
>The new machine rumor that I've seen is a Java only machine with a
>subset of the OS tuned to provide high performance for Java apps.
>
>Regards,
>Stan McPartland
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gibbs [mailto:David.Gibbs@IL.US.MKS.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 8:26 AM
>To: 'Midrange Mailing List'
>Subject: New AS/400 in 2000?
>
>
>Folks:
>
>I've heard a rumor that IBM will be comming out with a new AS/400 in
>2000 that doesn't support RPG or PL/I.  I don't really belive this...
>but my boss asked me to follow up on it :) 
>
>I know that PL/I has been dropped as a licensed product ... but is it
>concevable that RPG support would be removed?  
>
>Perhaps it's a "JAVA ONLY" machine?
>
>Perhaps it's only OPM rpg that's not available?  (I find this hard to
>belive, but heck... it's a rumor)
>
>Any insights would be appreciated!
>
>david
>
>
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>David Gibbs
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