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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Summary: Superminis
Keywords: micro mini main
Message-ID: <750@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 29 Jun 89 20:14:52 GMT
References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20752@winchester.mips.COM> <4400@ficc.uu.net> <187@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> <355@torsqnt.UUCP> <156@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rclaeson@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
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In article <156@van-bc.UUCP> sl@.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:

>It it's design/architecture dates to the late sixties, early seventies it's
>a mini.

>If it's design/architecture dates to the late seventies its a micro.

>If it's design/architecture dates to the early eighties its a super-micro.

>If it's design/architecture dates to the late eighties its a .......

Supermini!

An interpolation gives that an early nineties design/architecture must
be a super-mainframe.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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