From: Berg, Dan <berg@scdatacenter.com>

> See now, how do you know that is an accurate statement?
==> it was my opinion, but what is accurate is that the "screaming"
power on an Intel as a LOT cheaper, so if I had to make a business
case...

> Maybe the AS/400 would do the compression substantially faster?

==>maybe, but the compression per dollar would surely be worse

> and that we were limited by the IBM interactive tax at online multitasking.

well, we know the remedy for that, don't we?  :-)




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