• Subject: Re: FTP
  • From: DAsmussen <DAsmussen@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:36:00 EST
  • Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)

Al,

In a message dated 97-12-20 15:21:13 EST, you write:

> One of the severe penalties Rochester pays for in an architecture where
>  'everything works forever' is backwards compatability.  It preserves your
>  investment in programming.  Tell that to the next person that boasts to you
>  about NT.  Remember, Microsoft runs the core of their business on the
>  AS/400.  They just don't like to talk about it.  (as does Apple, Nintendo,
>  Gateway 2000 and Packard Bell [rumor has it that they have a new model
650])

Packard Bell also has one of the _SLOPPIEST_ EDI systems running on the
AS/400 ;-)...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone." -- Mrs.
Patrick Campbell
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