RE: FTP on V3R2

But Rob ... Word on DOS STILL WORKS on Win95, 98, NT and W2K!

But I do agree that that Bxx is a bit dated.

Anyone interested in purchasing a slightly used 5364 ??

-- Don Schenck
   Schenck Technical Consulting
   DonS@SchenckTech.com / www.SchenckTech.com 

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> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: March 20, 2001 1:19 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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> And you stop using Microsoft products because they haven't 
> come out with an
> update for Word on DOS in quite awhile?
> 
> Rob Berendt
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> I wasn't aware that the B10 couldn't run V3.  We had a B35 
> running V3 at
> one point, so I assumed that all the B-series would upgrade to V3.
> If they truly left B10 users high and dry, then YES I think IBM was
> foolish in that decision.
> 
> My original point, however, was that if you don't like IBM's 
> decision to
> do something like this, the correct response is "I won't upgrade".  In
> other words, if you're not pleased with one of IBM's decisions, you
> shouldn't encourage that decision by giving IBM money.
> 
> Naturally to people like you who don't mind these decisions, 
> you should
> continue to buy the upgrades.
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> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 rob@dekko.com wrote:
> >
> > And what is the highest release you would run on a B10?  I 
> once argued
> > against upgrading one special purpose 400 (E04) from V2R3 
> to V3 because
> of
> > the huge disk eating size of the database cross reference 
> files which
> first
> > came out in V3.  QADBIFLD on 1 of our 400's is 1.8gb.  So take this
> highest
> > version you would put on a B10, and if it is less than 
> V3R2, then in your
> > opinion did IBM shoot themselves in the foot long ago by 
> dropping a whole
> > class of machines which were serving their purpose?  And 
> yes a B10 is a
> > fair comparison to some of the larger CISC machines.  Just 
> compare the
> > performance of the latest RISC machines against these same 
> CISC machines.
> >
> > Rob Berendt
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> > What bothers me is not the dropping of support for old releases, but
> > rather the dropping of support for CISC machines that are 
> still working
> > just fine and serving their purpose.
> >
> > I think its unfortunate that V3R2 is the most recent 
> release for CISC
> > machines -- but since it is, it should not be dropped.
> >
> > And thats the difference between dropping support for V1R2 and V3R2.
> > When you drop V3R2 you drop an entire hardware platform.
> >
> >
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