RE: is this a hint or what?

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   3. Re: is this a hint or what? (Brad Stone)
>
>But, the main question is, unless one of these editors is
>free (or even $100 or so), I'm sticking with SEU.  It works
>great for me, and I am very productive with it.

Interesting point. Anybody care to comment on the cost difference between SEU 
and, say, CODE/400 nowadays?


>  And I
>don't want to install some thick client just for writing
>applications...  Not everyone has 100 gig of memory for
>IBM's PC based applications.  LOL!

Hard to find anything wrong with this sentiment. Those of us who began serious 
programming back when systems were "8K _PLUS_ a 4K expansion box!" might never 
sympathize with any requirement for all those giga-hertz of mega-ram that every 
single app seems to need nowadays.

What's worse, it seems the more memory my PCs have and the faster the 
processors and the more unused disk, the slower the _very same apps_ run. I run 
iSeries Access on my laptop and get performance with iSeries Navigator that's 
not perceptibly different from running on my desktop with four times the memory 
and twice the processor speed and double the unused disk space. (W2K laptop and 
WXP desktop.)

Sigh.

Tom Liotta

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