RE: AS/400 discussion on SLASHDOT.ORG

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's what I figured, but I wanted to make sure..  It seems that the whole
thread is riddled with ridicule for buzzwords.  My kind of group!

B

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> From: James_Turnbull@kaz.com.au [mailto:James_Turnbull@kaz.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 6:39 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: AS/400 discussion on SLASHDOT.ORG
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> That was sarcasm I believe.  The poster was suggesting that 
> informing the
> market that your processor ran XML (basically a text based 
> markup language)
> was not exactly going to shake the foundations of the computing world.
> It's great the AS/400 now supports XML but in reality it's 
> not exactly a
> big deal - most of the world's AS/400 professional are never 
> going to use
> it.  It's just another buzz word - what you get when you let 
> sales people
> write copy without consulting techos...
> 
> Regards
> 
> James Turnbull
> Technical Consultant
> KAZ Computer Services
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> Here's my question.  There is one comment about a "non-XML-compliant
> processor."
> 
> What the heck makes a processor XML compliant or not?  I 
> apologize if I've
> really missed something here.  I should check my AMD K-6s to 
> see if they
> are
> XML compliant.
> 
> Brad
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