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The 400 was a merger of the S/36 and the S/38. The 'best' of both worlds, and sometimes the Least Common Denominator. Much of the user friendliness came from the S/36. And the database came from the S/38. The S/36 was definitely a user's machine. The query product was loved by users. From what I hear, the query product on the S/38 was loathed by users. The mentality was also a little different. On the S/36 people were encouraged to use Queries. On the S/38 it people were told that if you wanted user access to data then replace the midrange with a PC network because, by God, you will not get access. And, often, the users did. Some things, it took awhile to catch up. Like the S/36 version of IDDU would allow you to specify only certain values could be in fields and the S/36 version of UPDDTA enforced it. The S/38 had something close in DDS but it was ignored by UPDDTA and only used by reference in screen DDS used by HLL programs. Catch up happened when check constraints came out. Rob Berendt -- Group Dekko Services, LLC Dept 01.073 PO Box 2000 Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com |-----------------------------+-------------------------------------------| | "Chuck Lewis" | | | <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx> | | | Sent by: | To| | midrange-l-bounces@midrang| "'Midra| | e.com | nge | | | Systems| | 07/29/2004 03:44 PM | Technic| | | al | | Please respond to | Discuss| | Midrange Systems | ion'" | | Technical Discussion | <midran| | <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxx| ge-l@mi| | m> | drange.| | | com> | | | cc| | | | | | Subject| | | RE: Who| | | is | | | Glenn | | | Henry? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-----------------------------+-------------------------------------------| Don't nap yet - remember going from the S/38 to the AS/400 with the ole # 4 ? 4 Held a something (job, printer file) on the S/38 and deleted it on the AS/400. From what I heard at the time that "interface, etc." came from the S/36... -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Barber Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:01 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Who is Glenn Henry? Yep...sighhhh.. I meant S/34. The description I gave was the beginning of the 400. I gotta go take a nap. -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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