That's not necessarily an advantage.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:50:51 -0500, "Vern Hamberg"
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> In addition to all the other good thoughts is backward compatibility - 
> almost all programs compiled on a System/38 25 years ago can be restored 
> and run immediately on the latest V5R2 iSeries box. Going along with this 
> is hardware independence, the hardware abstraction layer.
> 
> Have fun
> Vern
> 
> At 12:30 PM 4/27/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >Unreal; my son is in the IT program at IUPUI (Indiana University/Purdue
> >University/Indianapolis) and they have a paper to write on any operating
> >system and why they think it is the best and guess what ? OS/400 is actually
> >one of the choices !
> >
> >So he is NOT looking for any of us/you to write this paper for him and I
> >have given him a copy of Dr. Frank's book. He is just needing some real
> >world examples, etc. to better understand all of this and present it to "the
> >unenlightened masses". He knows from a long time back that the
> >AS/400/iSeries and OS/400 have meant "dad could be home" when my other
> >cohorts were in at all hours working on failed servers, messed up OS's, etc.
> >:-)
> >
> >Willing to help ? It will no doubt REALLY open some eyes.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chuck
> 
> 
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