RE: AS/400 heritage

[neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Actually, Evelyn was not encouraging another "geezer-fest" on this list.
Her posting clearly said:

Send your questions, comments, reflections and anecdotes to:
Neil Tardy, iSeries Magazine senior editor, neiltardy@us.ibm.com.

...but as usual, most people don't read (or think) before they hit the 
"Reply" button.

...Neil





Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
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2001/05/03 09:59
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Richard Reeve wrote:

>I think that you are all being very difficult.  A
>story is just that.  It may even be interesting.
>Lighten up.

What you're seeing is the reaction to past threads on this list that we've
taken to calling a "geezer-fest."  Like anything else, a brief flurry of 
"do
you remember...?" is amusing, but two weeks worth much less so. Especially
to newcomers.  Poor Evelyn jumped into a hornet's nest when she said the
magazine was going to _encourage_ a geezer-fest!

For the record, I think the article will be interesting.  Perhaps IBM are
going to cut the cord between the heritage AS/400 and the modern iSeries 
and
this article will be the date we all remember as the Real iSeries launch.
Hey, I try to be optimistic once in a while...

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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