Re: [Reactor For CF] Reactor with DB2 (or Don't Knock the AS/400!) ;)

[Jared Rypka-Hauer]

WOW... ok, apparently the AS/400 is still a product line at IBM... in 2000 it was renamed to the iSeries line of servers and the line now includes the i5 systems as well. What's interesting about it is that every piece of software written for the AS/400 will run on any piece of AS/400 hardware ever produced or ever to be produced. Apparently the hardware was set up so that programmers can't get access to the native instructions of the hardware platforms under OS/400, so the software is written to the virtual instruction set they DO have access to, which is then compiled into native code for the actual harware platform. Fascinating stuff. Laterz, J ------------------------------------------------ Jared C. Rypka-Hauer Continuum Media Group LLC http://www.web-relevant.com Member, Team Macromedia - ColdFusion "That which does not kill me makes me stranger." - Yonah Schmeidler