RE: Advice on Home Development AS400

["Phil" <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>]

>What drugs are you taking?  "A 620-2181 isn't enough."   Enough for what?

Enough for java.  The machine just can't handle java.  It can take a half
hour to start websphere.  Maybe 15-20 minutes to end it.  So you build a
servlet, start websphere.  Take a very long break.  Servlet doesn't work
well.  So you make changes, and stop/start websphere again.  For it to take
that long makes it no kind of development or training machine.  On a 600, it
could take an hour to start websphere.  To run java you've got to have the
right machine.

If java is anywhere in the equation don't waste your money on a 600.  That's
my opinion.

Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Charly Jones
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:44 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Advice on Home Development AS400


What drugs are you taking?  "A 620-2181 isn't enough."   Enough
for what?  This machine has 210 CPW - for one user (possibly two)?
What is "it" that can take "many hours" when accessing the database?
Does accessing mean retreiving hundreds of millions of records?
What am I missing?  If a real company can run their business with
this machine, why is it that a single student can't use it to learn
how the System/38 AS/400 e(logo) Server iSeries works?

I am lost... totally lost.  I don't get it.

Charly Jones

>
>Phil wrote:
>
>>If the term Java comes up in anything you may want to do, do not get a
>>low-end 600.  It can take many hours when accessing the database.  You
>>will
>>become so frustrated with development you wont use it.  Now, if you only
>>want to do rpg then a 600 will be fine.
>>
>>Even a 620-2181 with 1 gb memory isn't enough.
>>
>>Phil

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