Re: Windows BSOD vs. AS/400

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

John,

At 7/31/00 05:04 PM -0600, you wrote:
>I think that Pascal has a point. The only problems that I've had with my W2K
>installation were all related to buggy hardware drivers provided by
>third-party manufacturers. What would the impact be to OS/400's reliability
>if there were hundreds of vendors digging into the microcode to write
>drivers for their hardware? Perhaps we'd be seeing a lot more SRC's on the 
>front panel.

  Then let's translate this into real world.  How many 3rd party printer 
brands do you know of that can run off the /400?  Plenty.  I have yet to 
hear of even *ONE* making the /400 go belly up.  Same goes for disk drives, 
tape drives, terminals, etc.

  Sorry, I still don't buy the assertion.

  -mark
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