I would love to be able to go back to being able to run a mailmerge type function natively on the iSeries like I use to when IBM supported their word processor. If I could run Word I think I would.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:06 PM
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Subject: RE: Windows XP running on an IBM i?
:-))
I once installed Word into the IFS on a 720, just to try it. It actually worked, but it was really slow.
Paul Nelson
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:54 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Windows XP running on an IBM i?
IBM has technology to run Windows Server (almost any version) on POWER or Mainframe.
Why don't they? Two reasons in order of importance.
1) Microsoft will not support it, period. IBM tried to get them to.
Even offered to pay for the porting.
2) Customers have not demanded it.
Either one kills the idea.
That is an emulator someone wrote to run it on a unix platform, in this case AIX/PASE.
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
On 1/3/2012 1:31 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozOCxEqHrmU
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