Cool to see someone defending the AS/400! My brother was one of the lead developers on the OS for many years so I KNOW it's a solid machine. ;-)
Matt On 4/20/06, Jared Rypka-Hauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- Matt Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mattwoodward.com -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/
