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In article <1992Dec20.235519.16823@news.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>2) The AS400 runs RPGII.  I don't care about RPG, you probably don't care
>    about RPG, but there are some big important applications that use it.

Amen.  *BUT* RPGII can be now gotten elsewhere, and the "push" at the
400 confrences are to "Go Native", as in Native Mode AS/400 ala RPGIII.

>3) The AS400 is a capability based tagged architecture.  It offers security
>    like nothing else on the market.  That's not to say that it's perfect,

Amen again.  Drove me crazy it was so tight. You could secure any object
on the system in about a thousand ways, individually or in groups. 
There are some lessons there that some *IX folks could learn
too!

>    but while all us RISCy folks have been off worrying about MIPS, IBM has
>    noticed that tools providing incredibly tight control over access to
>    information are crucial in many markets.  Try writing an AS400 virus!

That's the big problem.  It is a little overboard and very difficult
to administer.  I thought *NOTHING* could be as bad as Xenix9BD/Unix
until I came across this thing.  Also it alienated a lot of folks used
to the say of doing things on the S/36 and S/34 platforms.

Try writing an AS/400 PROCEDURE, forget the virus.
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