RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What can I say, James, that is my judgement after 5 years experience
coding in Windows.

Nothing personal, but . . .

My judgement is based on just over ten years of professional experience
writing AS/400 software, two years paid experience on the Amiga, nearly
twenty years of experience writing DOS applications, twenty years of
exposure to the Macintosh, five years of writing for TRSDOS before that, a
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, from CSU Long Beach (which
involved working with various CDC Cybers and a DEC PDP-11), two years of
high school programming (on an IBM 370/135), fluency in multiple dialects
and derivitives of  BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, Pascal, Modula-2, Java,
LISP, RPG, CL, C, Smalltalk, PDP-11 Assembler, 8086 Assembler, and AS/400
MI, exposure to such GUIs as Macintosh, Amiga, GEM, GEOS, and several
versions of WinDoze, and observation of the fact that minimum system
requirements for virtually all Microschlong products offered for sale in
the past decade have skyrocketed at several times the rate of any other
software publisher's products.

I might also observe that WinDoze boxes tend to be replaced several times
more frequently than machines running anything else: a ten-year-old
AS/400, Macintosh, Linux box, or DOS box is still a viable machine, so
long as you already have most of the software you need, and are prepared
to write the rest, yourself, while a 2-year-old WinDoze box is a
paperweight.

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JHHL