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  • Re: Disadvantages of an AS/400

    From Raz Sal@razwolsey@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc on Thu Jul 8 08:40:45 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc

    On Saturday, March 7, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Larry Shove wrote:
    One of the main disadvantages of the AS400 is that it has no native
    graphics
    or sound support.
    This may change in the future. The Java porting to AS400 does not include
    the AWT Package so you can have 100% Java clients, but the server can not
    run alot of Java applications - via OS/400.
    If IBM gave OS/400 a GUI instead of spending millions on OS/2, it could of killed NT4 before it was born!
    Cheers
    Larry
    tsn...@pssd.com wrote in article <6dplag$dka$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
    Hello everyone. I am doing some research on the AS/400. What I am
    looking
    for is any information about the disadvantages of an AS/400. Any
    information
    would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

    Todd Snyder
    tsn...@pssd.com

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    sorry hasnt changed for the past 23 years. still slow ugly and junk. cheap corporate ware
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  • From Raz Sal@razwolsey@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc on Thu Jul 8 08:41:41 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc

    On Saturday, March 7, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Thomas Raddatz wrote:
    On my opinion there are no great disadvantages with an AS/400. Some
    people mention the price but they should remember the reliability of the AS/400, too.
    The only disadvantage known by me is that you can not run an AS/400 24
    hours over 7 days a week. From time to time you have to do an IPL to
    allow the AS/400 to reorganize temporaly used adresses. If you forget to
    do an IPL you will run out of free adresses and the system will stop. At
    this point you MUST do an IPL!
    A customer of our company owns a Model 320 and he has to do one IPL per
    week. But I think that this is independant of the model. Other people
    may correct this.
    Kind regards
    Thomas Raddatz, Germany
    tsn...@pssd.com schrieb:

    Hello everyone. I am doing some research on the AS/400. What I am looking for is any information about the disadvantages of an AS/400. Any information
    would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

    Todd Snyder
    tsn...@pssd.com

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    that was 1998
    2021, many disadvantages. slow, unpredictable, laggy, just a joke
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