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From: battle@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Mr. Rick Battle )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.misc
Subject: AS/400 vs DEC vs HP
Keywords: AS/400 DEC HP APPC LU6.2 Ethernet
Message-ID: <1651@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 89 19:12:38 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Maryland Baltimore County
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We are investigating hardware architecture     for administrative
computing.  In the running are DEC, HP and IBM.  We dont know
much about the new IBM AS/400.

Informed opinion would be greatly appreciated .  Your thoughts
are valued if they fit into an arguement I can present to my boss.
At the present time we are leaning toward DEC as the most flexible
architecture.

Our questions about IBM are;

1. Who has the AS/400?
2. Are you using APPC, LU6.2 to communicate?
3. Does the AS/400 have an Ethernet interface?
4. If it does have Ethernet are there any known problems?

Thanks much.

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