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Okay, here is another small rant from Chris.

Please don't complain about Rochester "missing the boat" on standards. It
isn't quite the case. Why not complain about them using EBCDIC instead of
ASCII? Because, of course, when Rochester did it, that was the standard, in
the world for which the technology was intended. My personal feeling is that
Rochester has done an incredible job of walking the line between
implementing all the new standard technologies as the market comes up with
them, and providing the same bulletproof, green screen manageable system
their customers are familiar with.

It is tough enough to just keep track of the "standards" that come and go in
our industry. And we don't have to design hardware or software around them.
Keep in mind the level of testing and reliability you require from Rochester
the next time you expect some new feature to be rolled into the base
operating system before the ink is dry on the standard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Franz" <franz400@triad.rr.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: Free OS/400

> Rochester missed the boat years ago by not buying into non-proprietary
> standards.
> They put some IP features in way back in V2 or late V1, and then always
> stayed
> behind the market. What we needed is the reliability & quality, that can
> talk/interact
> with everything else. With V5R1, in the year 2001, we got closer.
> btw-comment from earlier posts-the as/400-iSeries is and has been a
> graphical machine
> for many years. We, the customers are the one's who chose not to use the
> tools to
> do it. Just because we have a command line interface still running (which
> your users
> should NEVER see) a variety of Visual tools, ibm & others, have been
around
> for years.
> IBM even made a Visual rpg tool. But we kept resisting, "well it's not
like
> subfiles".
> Would you say the same about every Unix box, that it's not graphical?
> jim
>

Chris Rehm
javadisciple@earthlink.net
If you believe that the best technology wins the
marketplace, you haven't been paying attention.


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