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From: ram@shukra.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
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Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Keywords: micro mini main
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Date: 27 Jun 89 15:59:07 GMT
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In article <8266@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lynch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes:
>
>How about:
>
>If a single user can afford it, it's a micro.
>
>If a department can afford it, it's a mini.
>
>If a corporation can afford it, it's a mainframe.

    A VP of R&D at some three letter company once said....

    "Have you seen the brontosaurus gazing on the show floor? No, really,
    there's this big pre-historic monster out there, with bodily fluids being
    pumped through it from a truck outside. And they have built a big 
    observation deck for people to come in a gawk at it - it's just like
    at the La Brea tar pits!".

    He was apparently referring to a mainframe from another three letter
    company.

    renu raman