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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a mainframe?
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Date: 28 Jun 89 20:08:34 GMT
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In article <33968@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>None of those are mainframes and this sort of statistic is useless
>anyhow, put 16 of those jobs up at once and tell me what they're
>getting as an aggregate and then perhaps we can talk.
>
>I'm not even sure what your point is, and somehow doubt you read the
>whole message stressing aggregate throughput, not single-stream.
I think that system response is a useful statistic which either
causes users to buy time on mainframes or buy their own affordable
workstations.  I will supply the benchmark to anyone who wants to
run it on a REAL mainframe.

What is a mainframe?  It's an OBSOLETE COMPUTER!


brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp