Re: Can you say "World War III?"(You guys are wrong)

[Wynn Osborne <wynn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This tops it right here :-)

My God man, Microsoft's never seen the day it can dream of creating
software as reliable as OS/400 running on the AS/400.

I believe the last time our AS/400 went down was, ... oh it had to be 1996.
It's more reliable than flying !

I am curious. When you use the word stable in terms of NT, do you include
that classic Microsoft software behavior where the OS locks up? If you
exclude that, I may just agree with you.

If anyone's counting, Microsoft's been in the GUI OS business for about ten
years now. Wouldn't you think that that would be sufficient time for them
to determine exactly what it is that's causing every damned computer in the
World running their software to just quit running?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. When we got VB 5 Enterprise
Edition, my first exposure to GUI development, I was so exited. "I'm in the
90's", I thought. Along about day two, I'm sitting there doing something
quite simple---designing a form---dragging some controls around---and BOOM!
 Ths !@#$% program blew up. At that instant I realized that company just
wasted $1500 on a supposed development tool.

People, SEU, SDA, RLU, CL, & RPG ain't exiting, but for the most part IT
NEVER EVER BLOWS UP. 

May God help those boys on that carrier. Can you say "Friendly Fire".

Geesh,
Wynn


At 10:20 AM 8/2/00 -0700, you wrote:
>IMHO
>Nah,
>You guys are wrong,Windows 2000 Advanced Server is just as
>stable and scalable (at a fraction of the cost) as OS/400
>
>Dave
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>From: Pat Barber <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net>
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>Date: Tuesday, 1 August 2000 13:49
>Subject: Re: Can you say "World War III?"
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>>
>>Krys_Theodore@WHJI.COM wrote:
>>>
>>> How often to you reboot your aircraft carrier?
>>
>>According to article, NT is only used for certain functions,
>>"Fire Control" is NOT one of them. They will be able to shoot
>>quite well, they just won't be able to come back home or know
>>where they are.... other than that, the system performs quite
>>well. It's just those pesky "down times".........
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