RE: IBM gets serious about 64 bits

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I don't think that's fair.

If Honda came out with a new car with an engine that does 500mph, they'd
release a statement saying that they finally figured out how to go 500mph.
Would you come along and say "Wow, all this time I never realized that my
jetplane was a toy"

The PC server and the iSeries are two totally different things.

Do you expect them to say "Our PC servers will now be 64-bit!  Our iSeries
has been 64-bit for 8 years!"

If so, then new announcements for RPG should read like this:  "ILE RPG now
has qualified data structures!  You've been able to do that in C for 30
years!"

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, DeLong, Eric wrote:
>
> Wow, all this time, I never realized that PowerPC was a toy 64-bit CPU.
> Good thing AMD came along and got IBM to see the light!  I guess we can
> expect to see an Opteron based iSeries soon, huh! <how does one do a
> raspberry in email?>
>