Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Message-ID: <1989Jun27.153813.27080@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20752@winchester.mips.COM> <4400@ficc.uu.net> <187@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <355@torsqnt.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 15:38:13 GMT

In article <355@torsqnt.UUCP> david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>	If, when you try to run off the end of memory, it swaps in more,
>	its a mainframe.

And if, when you try to run off the end of memory, it prints out a PO for
more memory, and puts your job in paging wait until it arrives... it's a
Multics machine!! :-) :-) :-)
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