[rescue] AS400

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

>    Now, I'm not a big AS/400 fan...but your statements here are
> nothing 
> short of completely ridiculous, and if I didn't know better, I'd
> swear 
> you were trolling.

No, not trolling - my suspicions were repeated by Eric:

"The software is licensed and coded, so for a hobbyist getting
a valid OS can be difficult."

Which I take to mean, that the CPU has a serial number, and the license
has a "life", after which it needs to be repurchased (it expires).

> > OK - But I think software will be, uhm, challenging - IBM is very
> good
> > at making sure they get paid for their software...
> 
>    Well, if he doesn't have an OS, sure.  Dude...if I can get Unicos
> for 
> a Cray supercomputer, I'm sure someone can find a copy of OS/400. 
> Come 
> *on*.
> 
>    And that's even assuming his machine doesn't have an OS.  I don't 
> recall having heard him say it didn't.

Dave, I've prefaced all my statements (and if I didn't, my bad, I meant
to) by saying "if you don't have an OS"... He never said one way or
another...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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