RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

["Jack Derham" <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to suggest that Mr.'s Beeler and Richer take their excessively
negative attitudes some where other then the Mid-Range Lists. I would
suggest some place that is reportedly very HOT so that its environment would
help them burn some of the arrogance out of their personalities.
Seriously,
Jack Derham

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Vining
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

Steve,
   
  In light of some of the notes that fly when you post on 16MB spaces and 10
character names, have you considered prefacing your wishes with:
   
  " I realize that i5/OS with the terapace storage and data models supports
storage addressing simliar to other systems --  for instance memory
allocations of up to 2GB, the use of 8-byte integers as pointer values, etc;
that the IFS supports file/object names similiar to other systems -- for
instance a file name such as
'/ThisIsAFairlyLongNameWithALongExtension.ThoughPerhapsNotTooLong'; that a
given job (or even a careful individual program) can utilize both teraspace
and single level storage concurrently, etc. but I would like to see IBM
extend the traditional Single Leval Store and library system (which is
admittedly unique to this platform) to also incorporate the capabilities of
i5/OS teraspace and IFS.  This would represent an architectural capability
far beyond other platforms and help negate criticism in the marketplace."
   
  Just a proposal.
   
  Bruce 

Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  the spirit of the article and comments reads as an embrace of the
operating
system of the 1990s. The hardware people at IBM are doing world class work.
The software team is what is holding us back now. SLS is aged with its 16meg
segment limit and the inablility of pointers to stay valid between IPLs. ILE
has not been improved in 10 yrs. 10 char limit on object names is bad, Fix
it, ok.


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

> http://blogs.computerworld.com/frankly_speaking_not_dead_yet
> --