RE: "State of the Midrange" by Don Rima

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just glanced at your web site and I'm assuming it's a native AS/400 product.


The article in "Software Development" dealt with the problems involved in
converting applications for NT or UNIX that, among other things, depended on
pointers having a particular size or write to explicit addresses (seems to
me xB800 was the 8086 address for the monochrome graphics adapter).  You may
have missed the "<g>" following my comment on converting AS/400 applications
to 64 bit processing.    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Dixon [mailto:rob.dixon@erros.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:01 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: "State of the Midrange" by Don Rima
> 
> 
> Joel
> 
> > A couple of months ago, my boss said to me 
> "Congratulations, you're famous."
> > Our marketing department subscribes to service that 
> searches the Internet
> > for references to our company name.  I'd written a letter 
> in response to an
> > article in "Software Development" about the rigors of converting
> > applications to 64 bit processing and my name turned up 
> from the return
> > address.  I think most of the people on this list know how 
> hard it was to
> > convert applications to 64 bit processing on the 400.<g>
> 
> To convert the whole of my  ERROS product to 64 bit 
> architecture, including its
> complete development and operational environments, 
> applications and user data
> took just 20 minutes! (that is not a typing error).  I cannot 
> claim it was hard.
> 
> I went to get a coffee after I had started the conversion 
> process but this
> finished before I had drunk my coffee.
> 
> Rob Dixon
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