Re: No giving up on System i

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Aren't all operating systems hardware linked?  I recall that, when Apple 
moved to Intel from Motorola, the Apple OS had to be re-written.  
Windows is Intel specific; when it runs on other platforms, it runs 
under an emulator specific to that platform.  Same for Linux, I think.

I'm open for correction if this isn't true either as a general rule, or 
excepted in some cases.


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Michael Ryan wrote:
> Well. certainly with the hardware being essentially the same between
> System i and System p (is that family name correct?), the OS is the
> differentiator. Of course, we're the only ones that know that. Even
> though the System i family can run multiple, different OSes, we
> primarily run i5/OS. That's why we buy an i5. It doesn't make
> financial sense to buy the hardware to run any other OS as a primary
> OS. That being said, you can still only run i5/OS on one type of
> hardware, so they're still linked. Naming by OS makes sense when you
> can run the OS on different hardware. We can't do that with i5/OS.
>
> On 9/27/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > > I still remember an article I read (PC Week at the time) when W2K debuted.
> > >       
> > The author chastised MS for releasing a known buggy system saying, "If MS
> > ever learns to write operating systems like IBM does for the AS/400 [his
> > word, not mine], it might be on to something."
> >
> > I think you might be on to something Jerry!  Maybe we need to get some
> > authors familiar with i5OS to infiltrate the ranks of high-profile trade
> > rags and start writing articles that are truthful to what the best machines
> > are out there.  Of course the article topics would have to be about silly
> > things with phrases like "Microsoft ... Enterprise" (those two words don't
> > belong in the same sentence), but in the article content we could make sure
> > the world knew what the best OS/language/DB was!!  Us RPG people is so
> > sneaky! ;-)
> >
> > Maybe I made my coffee a little strong this morning... :-)
> >
> > BTW, rocking out to http://www.purevolume.com/scenesfromamovie this morning.
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> > http://mowyourlawn.com
> >
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