Re: Would it be possible to PC based tools or packages inside the IFS ???

This kind of thought has been brought up before - usually related to some form of the Power chip series in use on an XBOX or the like.

Microsoft would have to write a version of Windows to run on Power hardware - fat chance, right?

Or you could run Linux on i, then start an emulator, such as Wine or whatever the current best-of-breed emulator is used - I've not played with Linux in a long time, so Wine is all I know about.

If Microsoft were to write Visual Studio entirely in Java, hey, you could run it on the i - fatter chance of THAT ever happening! :)

Mike's question is germane - are talking about running the development environment - that is Visual Studio - are about running the apps created with VS? There are tools for converting .Net apps to Java - Google has lots of hits - I've never used them, so I can't comment on how good any of them are.

If you are talking about running VS - which is the IDE, not the apps - then that doesn't make sense to me, either.

Regards
Vern

On 2/19/2012 9:00 PM, thomas burrows wrote:

I understand a bit about why this idea does not just work immediately.

All PC "not Apple Mac products" run on an INTEL or INTEL like cloned
processor standard developed by IBM back in 1981.

The iSeries/AS400 "or whatever IBM is calling the platform today" runs on
the POWER 7
processor.

But has anyone given any thought to what it would take to be able to run
any Windows type package, etc from i-Navigator on the iSeries???

What I am thinking about is how would I get Visual Studios 2010 to run on
the iSeries???

Okay this is a 100,000 foot question. Not even getting into the issues of
trying to do the SQL connection string back to the original iSeries.

Probably will need some type of emulator to handle this.

Any thoughts from the group about something like this?