Re: AS/36 replacement.

["Jamie Coles" <jcoles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two of the main gripes about the California Software product were the
licensing costs - as usual everyone wants a product that can make their life
easier but dislike to pay money for it!
The main issue was with runtime costs.

Also their security involved a dongle that stuck out of the back of the PC
and stopped it being able to be pushed further back on the desk !

Sometimes people are just sooooo picky!!

>From memory the Baby 36 product emulated the green screen 36 on a PC in as
far as you could write code with Baby36 and run it on the S/36  or another
PC with California Software runtime. , not sure if it worked the other way.

I'm not sure if Lattice or the others are still around - the UK distributor
stopped about 7 years ago.

If there is a need to run on NT why not use ASNA's Visual RPG? They have (or
had) a certain amount of "cut and pastes" conversion features and the
database is very similar to DB2/400.

Or move to a small 400.

----- Original Message -----
From: "ken shields" <kjs@postoffice.idirect.com>
To: "MIDRANGE-L" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:32 PM
Subject: AS/36 replacement.


> A short while ago, I posted a question about some type of conversion
> software, to port AS/36 code to a desktop or NT
> server.....topic was about a product by California Software.
> Some people had some very bad experiences with Baby/36 product, I was
> wondering if anyone knows of a product which will do the trick.
> Much appreciated.
> --
> Best Regards
> Ken Shields
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