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

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

relax Jack. All is posted in the spirit of improving the system and
exploring interesting technical issues.

I delete a lot of messages on this list automatically. Lukas's I
always read because he actually works with the system and has
interesting things to say.



On 4/11/08, Jack Derham <derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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-----
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> [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
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