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In article <BzsIFK.EMF.2@cs.cmu.edu> lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>kolding@cs.washington.edu (Eric Koldinger) writes:
>>The AS/400 uses a tagged memory-system and tagged registers to
>>protect capabilities (or pointers, as they call them).  There are
>>also a number of operations that only take place on capabilities.
>>This makes it rather unlikely that they'd use a stock micro-processor
>>from the workstation group.
>
>I don't think that RPG programmers deal with capabilities, so, the
>stock microprocessor needs only a stock RPG.
>
>What other languages are of importance on the AS/400? What is the OS
>written in, and are capabilities actually explicit at the source
>level?
>
>My experience with software-based capabilites has been positive, so
>it's not clear to me, offhand, that a stock RS/6000 is out of the
>question.

Not to mention that UNIBOL's RPG implementation on an RS/6000 runs lots
of big humongous circles around an AS/400 all the way across the board
from what I understand.  I also understand that IBM Sales Reps are told
not to acknowledge the existance of such a product.

I keep *HEARING* how bloody fast the new AS/400 lines are, but the
people who are telling me this are the same old folks that used the old
S/36's and '400's.

I'd *LOVE* to compare my under $25K PeeCee to an operating AS/400 say
under $75K with the *SAME* functionality.  ie. 48 ports, 30 users 9
printers and 7 HIGH SPEED modems.  I'd like to see just how much
performance improvement I'll get for 3 times the money.  Also I'd like
it to run real world small-medium business ($100M or less) applications
like simple sorting of customer databases and querying and reporting and
such.  *REMEMBER* all the quoted prices are for a naked system in most
cases.  Those perhipherals are gonna cost you a bundle.

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