RE: Multiple OS article

["Thompson, Glenn" <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually Windows can do this now but you have to have a third-party
software like VM-Ware.

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> For those of you who like comparing the iSeries to the Wintel
environment
> there's an editorial in the latest Infoworld by Tom Yager.  He yearns
for
> the ability to split the system and run multiple OS's.  Hmm, sounds
like
> LPAR.  He does acknowledge that IBM midrange can do this although he
fails
> to mention any names like AS/400, iSeries, or i5.
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> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/11/20OPcurve_1.html
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> While it's not uncommon for PC's today to multi-boot into different OS
one
> at a time the day is probably coming (if it's not here already) when
you
> can run OS's simultaneously.  Then all they will need are job queues,
> output queues, message queues, an integrated database...
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> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
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