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In article <1992Dec18.165950.15013@webo.dg.com> lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com writes:
>IBM is currently running full-page Ads that claim "The AS/400
>is the world's most powerfull computer with the industry's best
>price/performance(*)"
>
>"(*) According to the TPC-C benchmark results published through
>     12/3/92"
>

Yea, I laughed so hard my sides ached!

>IBM does not point out the the AS/400 is the only computer with
>TPC-C results published as of 12/3/93.  The AS/400 is also the
>world's slowest and most expensive computer by the same benchmark.

Dog slow.  But to the people who buy them they don't care.  The fact is
the AS/400 runs their apps that they have ported up from S/3 cards for
the last 20 years, and they are too lazy to try something different, so
they pay, and pay, and pay....

>
>Do people fall for this stuff?  IBM claims that the AS/400 is the
>best selling mid-range system in the world, so someone must fall
>for it.

Compile time for a 1000+ line program on a 486/33 w/8MB RAM using UNIBOL
RPG was about 8 times faster than an AS/400 B20 with 8MB RAM.  Seconds
as opposed to minutes.  Again, IBM will hold your ignorant MIS
departments hands from purchase, to setup to delivery.  All they'll have
to is write even more indicator mad code that takes forever to run, that
will of course require an even bigger AS/400 (or perhaps a 486/33 with a
better compiler ...)

If you own one, pray no one nukes the New England plant where all 100 or
so people that know AS/400 internals work.

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