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From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
> I briefly spoke with Dr Soltis at the recent Northeast IBM Conference.  I
> asked him to put OS/400 on a laptop to distribute to universities.  He told
> me that he floated the idea and nobody was interested, including COMMON.
> Apparently, if IBM can't find demand, they're disinclined to fire up a
> production line to create dumpster-filler.
>
> This may be an opportunity for us to tell Rochester that we're interested
in
> a low-cost OS/400.

At last COMMON I asked Frank Soltis if a laptop version would be available.
He said no with visible disgust. I think that the notion of a LOW-COST OS/400
does not sit well with IBM.



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