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I for one have tried over the past year or so to change the terminology that I use when referring to the AS/400, System i, iSeries, whatever you want to call it. There is a distinct difference in my mind between legacy and old. legacy is misused an awful lot these days and I am as quilty of it as anyone. Legacy refers to history, something which defines an individuals performance, a company, or a machine. Old is just that...OLD. I still prefer 5250 for most applications but considering our industry, it is something that still works exceptionally well. On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:29:40 -0400, Chris Payne wrote > The reason that people think the AS/400 is obsolete is because it looks > obsolete. We can argue all day long whether terminal interface is better > then GUI for certain types of tasks. The Unix guys do this to they will > talk and talk about how great the command line interface is, but Unix > has a GUI too and when it is appropriate to use they use it. > > Imagine that instead of developing windows, Microsoft had instead > upgraded DOS to support more character sets, and then renamed it "system > D", sure you can only use 8 characters in a file name, but that is > all you really need for business use. They could add a virtual > machine so that you could run "system D" on a 32 bit processor or a > 64 bit processor. And everyone would refer to it as a legacy system > because it would look OLD. > > Auto companies spend an enormous amount of money on styling because > people's impressions when they look at a product matter. What if Ford > had a car they called "system T" which was cheap, reliable, safe, > efficient and looked exactly like a model T, do you think anyone > would buy it? > > The AS/400 is a good reliable back end system with some impressive > technology under the cover, and I am not necessarily arguing that > anything needs to change. But the reason that everyone who is not > closely involved with the AS/400 thinks it is a legacy system is because > it looks like a legacy system. > > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:55 PM > To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' > Subject: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence > > The iSeries supports pretty much every character set available. > Certainly > as many as your standard Windows/*nix box. > > The QSYS library system is the only file system that has the 10 > character > limit, and that's frankly all a business system needs. Long > directory/path > structures are needed for text-file-based operating systems that are > fconfigured with thousands of little files, as opposed to an OS with > an integrated database. > > But in any case, the iSeries supports long file names just fine in > the IFS. > > The fact that the iSeries supports all those technologies IN > ADDITION TO all the technologies offered by other operating systems > is a benefit, not a disadvantage. > > Joe > > P.S. I should start a cult: The Church of the Perpetual Myth of iSeries > Obsolescence. I'd have to rename it every time IBM renamed the box, > but that might actually be helpful from a tax (evasion) standpoint. > > > From: Keith Carpenter > > > > EBCDIC ? > > library/object file system with 10 character names ? > > > > > > Unfortunately, changing these things probably has little ROI. > > > > > > Michael Jacobsen wrote: > > >> Where do people get the idea that the iSeries system is so > obsolete? > > > > > > Green screen? > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To > subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: > http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: > MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment > to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To > subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: > http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: > MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment > to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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