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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Summary: So that's it!
Keywords: high-performance
Message-ID: <161@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 00:38:42 GMT
References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20752@winchester.mips.COM> <230@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Distribution: comp.arch
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In article <230@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>, kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) writes:
> Wellllll........  A mainframe is:
	. . .
>   8)  any hardware implementation which allocates more cost to user separation
>       than to user service.

  That must be why mainframes are so popular with government!
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Stuart D. Gathman	<stuart@bms-at.uucp>
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