Just how much power do you need to type up a word doc and do 3270
emulation?
I deal with companies that at the end of 2004 still had end users using
IBM 3270 (or compatiable) terminals, not PCs emulating terminals, but
actual dumb terminal for end users. We are not sure if they have
replaced with PC's yet or not. I am talking about large corporations,
the have multiple IBM mainframes, multiple non-IBM mainframes, hundreds
of "Unix" servers, and thousands of Intel servers.
They purchased PC with 98 on them just for lite word processing and dumb
terminal emulation.
We had one user at a customers site that was still running DOS on a 286
until 2002. He could not use the Internet to get to us and had to use a
9.6 Kbps dialup. After a short discussion with him the next day a cup
of coffee "accidently" got spilled into the PC and killed it. He got a
new PC and Internet access the next day.
Doug Fuerst wrote:
And for the life of me, what investment are they protecting? Most 98
machines are woefully underpowered vs. today's machines, and the
machines today are cheaper and better. The OS is too, as 98 was not a
very stable OS. A 98 machine is generally 5-6 years old at this point.
That is junkheap time for a PC generally.
At 07:09 PM 3/18/2006, you wrote:
Interestingly, Microsoft is still producing fixes for Windows 98 thus
preserving my investment in my computer. Are any of the operating
systems that support 390 machines of that era still supported and for
how long?
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Doug Fuerst
Consultant
BK Associates
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 921-2620 (Office)
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