RE: Need some idea's, direction, etc.

Chuck,

I actually did a similar paper myself for a technical writing course
required for my CS degree.

Dr. Soltis' book has plenty of excellent information and examples.  In
particular:
1) the sections about single-level store in comparison to other OS's virtual
memory systems.
2) the benefits of the object oriented nature of the OS
3) Technology independence and the CISC to RISC conversion compared to the
fact that lots of 64 bit UNIX platforms, which have been around a while
still use 32 bit applications.

I guess what I'm saying is have your son read the book; I'm not sure how
much help we will all be here, given the excellent job Dr. Soltis has
already done.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 1:31 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: Need some idea's, direction, etc.
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
>  
> 
> Unreal; my son is in the IT program at IUPUI (Indiana 
> University/Purdue
> University/Indianapolis) and they have a paper to write on 
> any operating
> system and why they think it is the best and guess what ? 
> OS/400 is actually
> one of the choices !
> 
>  
> 
> So he is NOT looking for any of us/you to write this paper 
> for him and I
> have given him a copy of Dr. Frank's book. He is just needing 
> some real
> world examples, etc. to better understand all of this and 
> present it to "the
> unenlightened masses". He knows from a long time back that the
> AS/400/iSeries and OS/400 have meant "dad could be home" when my other
> cohorts were in at all hours working on failed servers, 
> messed up OS's, etc.
> :-)
> 
>  
> 
> Willing to help ? It will no doubt REALLY open some eyes.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Chuck
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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