At 05:26 PM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>machines to new ones. F.E. one could get an old IBM mini (System/3X) for
>little or no money, but is there anything doable on it that is impossible to
>do on a W****** 95 machine?
You can't heat your house with a Wintel box. 8^)
But seriously, how about supporting multiple users? I dunno much about
IBM's, but an HP3000 (like my Micro3000) can handle up to 8 users (Has 16
ports, iirc, but after 6-8 users, the system gets pretty slow.) I have yet
to find a PC database and development environment that could match what's
available (Image/KSAM, Cobol, Powerhouse, Qedit, MPEX, etc.) on the 3000.
(Though, admittedly, I haven't looked all that hard.)
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Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 17:51:23 GMT