Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld -- MIDRANGE-L

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Puhleeze. Enough already.You have give the same arguments ad nauseam, and
they have been debunked.

It doesn't have to be a Rolls-Royce, as long as it rolls.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

the spirit of the article and comments reads as an embrace of the
operating
system of the 1990s. The hardware people at IBM are doing world class
work.
The software team is what is holding us back now. SLS is aged with its
16meg
segment limit and the inablility of pointers to stay valid between IPLs.
ILE
has not been improved in 10 yrs. 10 char limit on object names is bad, Fix
it, ok.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://blogs.computerworld.com/frankly_speaking_not_dead_yet

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