RE: Many RPG programmers would like to be able to port their apps to other

Hi Bill, how are you?

I would say that you took those words right out of my mouth.
I have had that mantra for years... fallen on deaf ears I'm afraid. :(

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
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> Behalf Of bill.reger@convergys.com
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:58 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Many RPG programmers would like to be able to port their
apps to
> other
>
>
> >> I don't get it Brad, porting OS/400 to Linux/Windows?
>
> Bob,
>
> I'm not Brad but I think maybe I get it.
>
> I always wondered why someone at IBM didn't come up with a version of
> OS/400 that would run on a PC and/or server.  Talk about a stable
> environment.  And if IBM would have figured out how to give OS/400 a
GUI
> look-and -feel (a "real" one, not simply an add-on), my PC would be in
> PC-heaven.  It always seems crippled and unstable by the reality that
I
> have to run Windows on it.
>
> If a PC could run OS/400 and have a true GUI, I believe people would
flock
> to it.  But since IBM hasn't done it yet, maybe I'll never "get it"
(in the
> ownership sense, not the understanding sense).
>
> Bill
>
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