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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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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 21:59:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU's message of 1 Mar 90 18:12:29 GMT

>>>>> On 1 Mar 90 18:12:29 GMT, sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) said:
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DM> If it is worth the time/trouble to port business software running on the
DM> AS/400 series to the RISC box, sure. I'm not sure if there is a COBOL
DM> compiler for the 6000 series yet, however :-)
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guess again. Someone I know has a pre-release model. No fortran, but
it does have cobol. I think they have an Ada compiler as well.

DM> More interesting; IBM also announced a 370 box with MicroChannel which
DM> had '386 chips handling I/O.