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  3. May 2004

RE: i5....continues...

Pat wrote:

>This rumor of running Windows "native" has been around
>as long I can remember and frankly I don't know why IBM
>has resisted this for so long...

Sure has. I heard that at one time IBM had approached MS and IBM wanted the
API's documented, etc. and MS balked. And IBM said forget it because they
did not want to "destabilize" the, at the time, AS/400-OS/400. Then MS came
back to IBM some time latter but not sure where that went... This was from
Dr. Frank at the end of a deal he was doing years ago...

Chuck

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