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Re: EBCDIC Formatted File (Help Needed)

• Posted by Jonas Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> Oct 13, 2004
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cklester wrote:
> I was dissing the EBCDIC file format... not the AS/400. :P
> 
> (Does sound like a very cool machine, though!) :)
> 
CK,

I know you weren't dissin', sorry if you took it that way.

I was just using the opportunity to "vent".  And yes, it is a very cool
machine.  You can learn more at:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/

Yeah, it's called an i5 now.  Before that it was iSeries, before that
it was AS/400, before that it was System/38, etc., etc.  The new i5 
comes in 1-way to 32-way processors.

Oh, BTW, did I mention that the AS/400 was 64 bit?  Has been since about
2002!  AAMOF, the conversion from 32 to 64 bit for the 400 world was no
more than restoring the 32 bit backup to the 64 bit machine.  The OS 
recompiled all the code during the restore.  99.9999% of all software ran
without modification (even stuff that was written 20 years before!).  
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, MS!

For the curious I would even be willing to allow access to my 400.

Jonas Temple
http://www.yhti.net/~jktemple