Re: OS-X vs. Windows

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Brad,

You wrote:
>I wonder how many people are running Macs on their As/400?
>(Thought I would throw that out to move this back ontopic.)
>(And will probably get moans and groans of people saying 'not THAT
>again). Okay, has anyone on this list bought new Macs in 2001 to
>connect to their AS/400? How many?

We do.  We have one iBook 'cause we're small -- its primary purpose is for
documentation using Adobe software and for graphics work.  We bought it 3
months ago.  The rest of our network is OS/2 (on Token-Ring).  **IF** OS/2
becomes untenable we will probably put Linux on the PC hardware (just so it
isn't completely wasted) and buy Macs -- including an OS-X server.  We use
Mochasoft's 5250 emulator on the Mac and it is bridged to the Token-Ring
network via an OS/2 Warp Server with both TR and Ethernet cards.  I plan to
install the OS-X upgrade which has SMB support and see if I can get it
sharing drives with both OS/2 and AS/400.  My money is on it working easily
with OS/2 and not working at all with the AS/400 -- due entirely to the
idiot NetServer developers who haven't created a proper SMB server but
rather a half-arsed windows only variant -- with recent support for Linux --
bah, Humbug!

OS-X is quite delightful.  A nice protective GUI for those who need it and
raw Unix under the covers for the pointy-heads.  The Mac GUI is not as nice
or as powerful as the OS/2 Work Place Shell but it's not too bad --
certainly better than the Microsquib effort.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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