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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:53:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.135347.8111@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec18.165950.15013@webo.dg.com> <1992Dec20.235519.16823@news.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.235519.16823@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
- >2) The AS400 runs RPGII. I don't care about RPG, you probably don't care
- > about RPG, but there are some big important applications that use it.
-
- Amen. *BUT* RPGII can be now gotten elsewhere, and the "push" at the
- 400 confrences are to "Go Native", as in Native Mode AS/400 ala RPGIII.
-
- >3) The AS400 is a capability based tagged architecture. It offers security
- > like nothing else on the market. That's not to say that it's perfect,
-
- Amen again. Drove me crazy it was so tight. You could secure any object
- on the system in about a thousand ways, individually or in groups.
- There are some lessons there that some *IX folks could learn
- too!
-
- > but while all us RISCy folks have been off worrying about MIPS, IBM has
- > noticed that tools providing incredibly tight control over access to
- > information are crucial in many markets. Try writing an AS400 virus!
-
- That's the big problem. It is a little overboard and very difficult
- to administer. I thought *NOTHING* could be as bad as Xenix9BD/Unix
- until I came across this thing. Also it alienated a lot of folks used
- to the say of doing things on the S/36 and S/34 platforms.
-
- Try writing an AS/400 PROCEDURE, forget the virus.
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