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From: billms@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Bill Mangione-Smith)
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Subject: Re: IBM RISC System/6000  AS/400 (actually a diversion on the topic)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 19:24:37 GMT
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In article <0093307E.0B7FBDC0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>>It would seem to me that IBM just may have introduced an AS/400 killer.
>
>Three words come into play here:
>
>	Installed Software Base
>

Just what is the installed software base on the as/400?  Thats a reasonably
new machine, isn't it.  We are not talking decades here.
                                                                      
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
                                                                  
>AS/400 series to the RISC box, sure. I'm not sure if there is a COBOL
>compiler for the 6000 series yet, however :-)

Yep, we've had one here on our 600 for some time now.  Not that I'd ever
want to use it.  Don't think anybody else has either....

>Why should you
>stick with VAX VMS, even tho' you get more bang for the buck out of a 
>DEC station?
>
>				Doug

Because VMS has had people writing code for it for a long time.  Because
people have been using VMS for a long time.  Because businesses have been
buying VMS stuff for a long time.  The same is true of UNIX.  Is it also
true of the as/400?  I don't know.  What operating system does it use?




Bill Mangione-Smith
billms@dip.eecs.umich.edu