The S/32 was based on the S/3, and ran S/3 code unmodified, right through the S/38. AS/400 ran S/38 emulated, and I think had a dedicated S/36 emulation, as many users didn't want to leave S/36, a really good version of the hardware and software. Of course AS/400 changed a lot and was worth adopting native, and I think I-Series took you as far as you could go with Application Systems, even supporting Linux. I know my brother still has lots of RPG code running, just behind Java UI and mobile shells.
ToolSet, Java, and C are all available in the OS/400 constellation. COBOL for the brave. The Java implementation has a robust GUI toolkit, but mostly intended to support terminals, though it will leverage your Windows machines well, and there are mobile and Web toolkits available, which my brother has used to offer a strong anywhere/anytime support structure for real-time global manufacturing support for a DOD contractor/manufacturer who also supports virtually all the aircraft industry in civilian efforts. Mind you, he hates Java, but RPG finally met its match with Web apps.
He's also told me that there are Python, Pascal, Perl, Smalltalk, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, even PHP packages available. Not that he loves SQL, but he uses it in front of the DB2 sometimes to simplify using Web apps.
So far as I know he's never admitted to having worked with BASIC. Go figure.
Oh, and the trope that " the users were unwilling/unable to be retrained to better software" is pus. Unable=displaced. Unwilling=motivation to keep the job. I'm watching my business tools change every 20 months, and I keep up. It's ok. Or i would be gone.
Most of this core business software is core stuff that balances the books, reconciles transactions, and just does what is not seen directly.
It stays because it need not be replaced, and it is reliable. 'Users', often, are actually all the other software in the enterprise that lusers interact with daily.
My brother runs a serious shop that still uses RPG. SO go ahead, either a S/3 or S/38, that code is still running businesses. And yes, IBM would probably be a hassle, but then again that old S/3 code is still running on Zseries emulating AS/400-S/3x-S/3...
Where I work the IBM tape library was 'automated' decades ago. It is used exactly the same way, but it is, of course, all DASD drive now. And that's virtualized in a SAN inside a VM cluster that merely mimics a tape library.
I use PuTTY daily. At work it's HostExplorer, they can jam PComm up their Java. Lots of VT100 emulations out there.
Needless to say a PiDP-11 would handle mSATA fine. Imagine giving your VMS install more data space than existed in the world when it was introduced.
First-world problems. With a Pi at the heart of it I suppose I/O speed wold be realistic...For 100+ users.
True, this is as commodity product, toothpaste. The variables are different.
In fact, a well designed AI for this purpose would be weighting market pricing first, since demand is well understood (as the AI would detect) and competitor pricing is more important. It might experiment on a short term basis, but this market probably tolerates minimal price changes until an advantage is seen, then it's whose risk limits are out of line that drives changes. Equilibrium in this market is more important.
Now, do this in retail womens' clothing, and the calculus is more about detecting demand and then flushing inventory...
Apollo flight software was pretty damned good. The LM guidance software is remarkable.
But a lot of core business software, especially core transaction processing, written for 360 class mainframes, is still running today. Not just that software, but the OS it ran under, all versions, are unheralded.
My brother managed S/32-AS/400 systems and had one uncommanded IPL in 11 years before a wholesale conversion to the AS/400 system he was given. He thought SCP was as good as anything he'd heard of, even VMS he worked with, and RPG was the best until GUIs took over.
This has been enforced policy where I work for more than a year. If I plug in a removable device alerts are generated, messages on my workstation pop up, and it doesn't work.
I haven't tried to get past this, since group polices on my work machine are mostly impenetrable. It's OK, we have s very good file sharing system to do the needful.
Capitalism is singularly responsible for the greatest improvement in people's situations, worldwide, ever. Period.
Equality of outcomes is unattainable. Before capitalism dominated, inequality was even worse than today. It's not that a rising tide floats all boats, it's that you can live today, mostly, fearing less that someone will drown you for no reason at all save that they feel like it. Capitalism gives them reason to build you a boat.
Using a rubber mallet on your head is using a rubber mallet as designed. Hitting something. And while not as intended, nothing hitting your head intentionally is good, ever, especially for you.
That even one person thinks so raises the obvious question, 'why?' This is the question raised when someone opposes a new hydro dam, or an office building, or even an additional lane on the freeway. If you delay the project sufficiently, those who prefer to do business with partners will end up going way, leaving a reluctant partner behind.
Using the courts for this is either a 'misuse' of the process, or the only avenue for the tiny minority to impose its will on the majority. Sometimes that happens. May they revel in their victory for as long as they are able to do so.
NIMBY seems to have been invented in the USA. 'Seems' being the operative word, but it has been raised to a fine art here. California is the thought leader in this, and this is standard practice for several scenarios, not just nuclear power but even corporate siting.
Of course. A Christmas Story is just that, a story. I get the inference, sure. Those who don't believe in a philosophy often ridicule those who do. It's not born out ignorance so much as fear or part of an effort to discredit believers, if for no other reason than to make themselves feel good about their choices. It's often best done with a touch of sarcasm.
You do realize I know a bit about the origin and history of the Bible, right? And that even then people could remember. Also that some of the New Testament was written OR dictated by those who claimed to be apostles, though many of the Pauline Epistles are generally accepted as genuine, and having been written between 60-90 are about the same generation.
The Nicean Council around 400 settled on a Canon, but that's not when it was written.
And, of course, believers who recognize so this can still accept the sufficiency of scripture. While those who reject all of it will always find reason to do so, so this is all somewhere between pointless and self serving.
I've actually read the whole series, and a follow on, and it's entertaining fiction.
But it's fiction.
First, while there is substantial theology devoted to the role of Israel (more specifically Jerusalem) in eschatology, they are two significant points that Christians should agree on:
1. No man can or will know the time when Jesus will return. Not by signs, not by events, not by prophecy, no. Even Christ said He did not know the time, for it was appointed by the Father.
2. The manner of the return of Jesus cannot be predicted with any specificity. His descent from Heaven is the best description, we can lay claim to very little detail, though the imagery in Revelation of compelling, one guide to use in interpreting that book would be, as given to me, consider what is written literally as figurative, and what is written figuratively as literal. For instance, though I thought of the Number of Man, 666, as a literal mark, it may be better to consider it as just sorry of perfection, such perfection being represented by the number 7. 777 would be perfection, in body, mind and spirit. But we fall short of the Glory of God.
Not many Christians subscribe to the theory of some war in the Middle East presaging the return of Christ. No, not really. Many do recognize that Jerusalem is key in God's plans, but how and when are not well understood.
It is, however, good sport to claim this, especially by non Christians, to attempt to denigrate and marginalize Christians with outlandish and fantastic claims. This tactic is used in politics regularly. Nothing new here.
Which effort for which change? I've worked on succumbing to the prevailing paradigm and using one space, but if there is no disadvantage, I'm back to two spaces and they can suck it. That includes you, Matt Lauer.
I called the number back a few times to request deletion. Two were mapped to local Realtors. One was just some agency trying to market me. All hung up as I started my 'please remove me' speech. They could have been forwarded, but if so then their decades-old businesses are founded on forwarded service, and since they need licensed agents, this seems kinda stupid.
I'm just bright enough to know the difference, bucko. But nice try, keeping me on my toes.
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The S/32 was based on the S/3, and ran S/3 code unmodified, right through the S/38. AS/400 ran S/38 emulated, and I think had a dedicated S/36 emulation, as many users didn't want to leave S/36, a really good version of the hardware and software. Of course AS/400 changed a lot and was worth adopting native, and I think I-Series took you as far as you could go with Application Systems, even supporting Linux. I know my brother still has lots of RPG code running, just behind Java UI and mobile shells.
ToolSet, Java, and C are all available in the OS/400 constellation. COBOL for the brave. The Java implementation has a robust GUI toolkit, but mostly intended to support terminals, though it will leverage your Windows machines well, and there are mobile and Web toolkits available, which my brother has used to offer a strong anywhere/anytime support structure for real-time global manufacturing support for a DOD contractor/manufacturer who also supports virtually all the aircraft industry in civilian efforts. Mind you, he hates Java, but RPG finally met its match with Web apps.
He's also told me that there are Python, Pascal, Perl, Smalltalk, COBOL, SQL, BASIC, even PHP packages available. Not that he loves SQL, but he uses it in front of the DB2 sometimes to simplify using Web apps.
So far as I know he's never admitted to having worked with BASIC. Go figure.
Oh, and the trope that " the users were unwilling/unable to be retrained to better software" is pus. Unable=displaced. Unwilling=motivation to keep the job. I'm watching my business tools change every 20 months, and I keep up. It's ok. Or i would be gone.
Do you want OS/400 or CL & RPG?
Most of this core business software is core stuff that balances the books, reconciles transactions, and just does what is not seen directly.
It stays because it need not be replaced, and it is reliable. 'Users', often, are actually all the other software in the enterprise that lusers interact with daily.
My brother runs a serious shop that still uses RPG. SO go ahead, either a S/3 or S/38, that code is still running businesses. And yes, IBM would probably be a hassle, but then again that old S/3 code is still running on Zseries emulating AS/400-S/3x-S/3...
Where I work the IBM tape library was 'automated' decades ago. It is used exactly the same way, but it is, of course, all DASD drive now. And that's virtualized in a SAN inside a VM cluster that merely mimics a tape library.
I use PuTTY daily. At work it's HostExplorer, they can jam PComm up their Java. Lots of VT100 emulations out there.
Needless to say a PiDP-11 would handle mSATA fine. Imagine giving your VMS install more data space than existed in the world when it was introduced.
First-world problems. With a Pi at the heart of it I suppose I/O speed wold be realistic...For 100+ users.
True, this is as commodity product, toothpaste. The variables are different.
In fact, a well designed AI for this purpose would be weighting market pricing first, since demand is well understood (as the AI would detect) and competitor pricing is more important. It might experiment on a short term basis, but this market probably tolerates minimal price changes until an advantage is seen, then it's whose risk limits are out of line that drives changes. Equilibrium in this market is more important.
Now, do this in retail womens' clothing, and the calculus is more about detecting demand and then flushing inventory...
This isn't about hardware...
Apollo flight software was pretty damned good. The LM guidance software is remarkable.
But a lot of core business software, especially core transaction processing, written for 360 class mainframes, is still running today. Not just that software, but the OS it ran under, all versions, are unheralded.
My brother managed S/32-AS/400 systems and had one uncommanded IPL in 11 years before a wholesale conversion to the AS/400 system he was given. He thought SCP was as good as anything he'd heard of, even VMS he worked with, and RPG was the best until GUIs took over.
This has been enforced policy where I work for more than a year. If I plug in a removable device alerts are generated, messages on my workstation pop up, and it doesn't work.
I haven't tried to get past this, since group polices on my work machine are mostly impenetrable. It's OK, we have s very good file sharing system to do the needful.
Capitalism is singularly responsible for the greatest improvement in people's situations, worldwide, ever. Period.
Equality of outcomes is unattainable. Before capitalism dominated, inequality was even worse than today. It's not that a rising tide floats all boats, it's that you can live today, mostly, fearing less that someone will drown you for no reason at all save that they feel like it. Capitalism gives them reason to build you a boat.
"Those two guys who screwed this up for a town probably ruined a lot of lives."
No, but they may have diminished the opportunities for many.
Using a rubber mallet on your head is using a rubber mallet as designed. Hitting something. And while not as intended, nothing hitting your head intentionally is good, ever, especially for you.
That even one person thinks so raises the obvious question, 'why?' This is the question raised when someone opposes a new hydro dam, or an office building, or even an additional lane on the freeway. If you delay the project sufficiently, those who prefer to do business with partners will end up going way, leaving a reluctant partner behind.
Using the courts for this is either a 'misuse' of the process, or the only avenue for the tiny minority to impose its will on the majority. Sometimes that happens. May they revel in their victory for as long as they are able to do so.
Mod thus +1 Funny, please.
NIMBY seems to have been invented in the USA. 'Seems' being the operative word, but it has been raised to a fine art here. California is the thought leader in this, and this is standard practice for several scenarios, not just nuclear power but even corporate siting.
Really, this is SOP in the USA for many projects.
Of course. A Christmas Story is just that, a story. I get the inference, sure. Those who don't believe in a philosophy often ridicule those who do. It's not born out ignorance so much as fear or part of an effort to discredit believers, if for no other reason than to make themselves feel good about their choices. It's often best done with a touch of sarcasm.
I haven't been taught that the Bible is perfect or unerring for some time. But it's sufficient.
You do realize I know a bit about the origin and history of the Bible, right? And that even then people could remember. Also that some of the New Testament was written OR dictated by those who claimed to be apostles, though many of the Pauline Epistles are generally accepted as genuine, and having been written between 60-90 are about the same generation.
The Nicean Council around 400 settled on a Canon, but that's not when it was written.
And, of course, believers who recognize so this can still accept the sufficiency of scripture. While those who reject all of it will always find reason to do so, so this is all somewhere between pointless and self serving.
I've actually read the whole series, and a follow on, and it's entertaining fiction.
But it's fiction.
First, while there is substantial theology devoted to the role of Israel (more specifically Jerusalem) in eschatology, they are two significant points that Christians should agree on:
1. No man can or will know the time when Jesus will return. Not by signs, not by events, not by prophecy, no. Even Christ said He did not know the time, for it was appointed by the Father.
2. The manner of the return of Jesus cannot be predicted with any specificity. His descent from Heaven is the best description, we can lay claim to very little detail, though the imagery in Revelation of compelling, one guide to use in interpreting that book would be, as given to me, consider what is written literally as figurative, and what is written figuratively as literal. For instance, though I thought of the Number of Man, 666, as a literal mark, it may be better to consider it as just sorry of perfection, such perfection being represented by the number 7. 777 would be perfection, in body, mind and spirit. But we fall short of the Glory of God.
Not many Christians subscribe to the theory of some war in the Middle East presaging the return of Christ. No, not really. Many do recognize that Jerusalem is key in God's plans, but how and when are not well understood.
It is, however, good sport to claim this, especially by non Christians, to attempt to denigrate and marginalize Christians with outlandish and fantastic claims. This tactic is used in politics regularly. Nothing new here.
Several. Yeah. You know very few, and very little.
No, they don't. No.
'Word Processors' used this method. And my Selectric works great for when one-off hard copy or form filling is so rarely needed. Stifle.
Which effort for which change? I've worked on succumbing to the prevailing paradigm and using one space, but if there is no disadvantage, I'm back to two spaces and they can suck it. That includes you, Matt Lauer.
Winning!
I called the number back a few times to request deletion. Two were mapped to local Realtors. One was just some agency trying to market me. All hung up as I started my 'please remove me' speech. They could have been forwarded, but if so then their decades-old businesses are founded on forwarded service, and since they need licensed agents, this seems kinda stupid.
I'm just bright enough to know the difference, bucko. But nice try, keeping me on my toes.