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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: Mon, 28 Dec 92 03:43:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.034301.7943@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <Bzs3zn.43H.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec24.203452.22045@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <BzsIFK.EMF.2@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <BzsIFK.EMF.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
- >kolding@cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger) writes:
- >>The AS/400 uses a tagged memory-system and tagged registers to
- >>protect capabilities (or pointers, as they call them). There are
- >>also a number of operations that only take place on capabilities.
- >>This makes it rather unlikely that they'd use a stock micro-processor
- >>from the workstation group.
- >
- >I don't think that RPG programmers deal with capabilities, so, the
- >stock microprocessor needs only a stock RPG.
- >
- >What other languages are of importance on the AS/400? What is the OS
- >written in, and are capabilities actually explicit at the source
- >level?
- >
- >My experience with software-based capabilites has been positive, so
- >it's not clear to me, offhand, that a stock RS/6000 is out of the
- >question.
-
- Not to mention that UNIBOL's RPG implementation on an RS/6000 runs lots
- of big humongous circles around an AS/400 all the way across the board
- from what I understand. I also understand that IBM Sales Reps are told
- not to acknowledge the existance of such a product.
-
- I keep *HEARING* how bloody fast the new AS/400 lines are, but the
- people who are telling me this are the same old folks that used the old
- S/36's and '400's.
-
- I'd *LOVE* to compare my under $25K PeeCee to an operating AS/400 say
- under $75K with the *SAME* functionality. ie. 48 ports, 30 users 9
- printers and 7 HIGH SPEED modems. I'd like to see just how much
- performance improvement I'll get for 3 times the money. Also I'd like
- it to run real world small-medium business ($100M or less) applications
- like simple sorting of customer databases and querying and reporting and
- such. *REMEMBER* all the quoted prices are for a naked system in most
- cases. Those perhipherals are gonna cost you a bundle.
-
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