On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:49:01 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:17:30 -0600, John McKown <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>foolish as to get hooked on computers. National politics is the only way >>to go (where else can you vote yourself a raise regardless of your >>effectiveness?). Yes, I'm cynical and a bit depressed. >You shouldn't be. Take that re-training opportunity and you will find that the >i >platform is not so bad after all. And rest assured that the skills of RAS, you >learned in z, are what can make the difference. > >Cheers, > >Jantje. I second Jantje. I too had the privilege to work on AS/400s and found it not too far removed from MVS. That the architecture is a flat address space (wow, hello SVS!), I think the design calls for 2**128 address bits and that everything is an "object" and that the underlying objects are implemented in a relational database structure making for a fascinating study. Google "Dr. Frank Soltis" for context. Another thing that is interesting is that there was at one time an add-in card that was designed to run Windows NT Server side-by-side with OS/400. And oh by the way, John McK., like the z, the i System runs Linux without the need to run it on top of a z/VM equivalent. I think you might enjoy that. One of the things I liked about OS/400 was it's use of (or is still running) (SNA) APPN very early on (OS/400 version 2.3, I believe). Not to mention an implementation of TCP/IP on subsequent releases. Also love the compiled Command Language support. Great support for message passing. Don't like: RPG. But you have the other languages too. Ed R. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
