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Tom, I think there are a lot of people, in both the iSeries Division and the Server Group, who would like to see the iSeries go "back to the future". I posted a while back, that the follow-on to the iSeries should be called the i/38, for that reason. It should run CPF, but re-marketed as the "Central Processor Foundation". I think that may be a little to i-centric, though, so probably won't fly...:-( But just in case, IIRC, I reserved a couple domain names for the iNation to use... It would be some powerful marketing though, if the i and pSeries were ever combined. Everyone's heard of the pSeries, or could easily be made aware the the pSeries = RS/6000 = *nix. The coup would be portraying the follow-on as unequaled by anything else, because it combines the well-known pSeries with an unknown, but in a few respects, even superior iSeries. Like, for example: a command line interface for *nix that is a souped up version of QCMD. There are still an awful lot of pSeries users who swear by the command-line interface... And they've never even seen a decent one! They're kill for one with the F4=prompt capability, don't ya thin...? jt > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of thomas@inorbit.com > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:27 PM > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: RE: CFINT/IBM's failure to provide AD tools > > > Philip: > > On Mon, 12 November 2001, "Hall, Philip" wrote: > > > But it took such a long time for the iSeries to catch up with > the rest of > > the development/runtime world by having 'ILE' - none of it's > concepts are > > unique to the iSeries, or software development, they just > finally got there. > > Saying "catch up" is something of an unfair characterization in > the AS/400 world. To many, this is seen as a step backwards. > Maybe 40+ years backwards. <g> > > Tom Liotta > > -- > Tom Liotta > The PowerTech Group, Inc. > 19426 68th Avenue South > Kent, WA 98032 > Phone 253-872-7788 > Fax 253-872-7904 > http://www.400Security.com > > > ___________________________________________________ > The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe > Better! Faster! More Powerful! > 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! > http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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