Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What is a mainframe? Message-ID: <3860@phri.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 89 13:14:37 GMT References: <27709@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <34038@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4186@eos.UUCP> <27995@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <1989Jul12.013046.18610@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 13 In <1989Jul12.013046.18610@comp.vuw.ac.nz> newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes: > If it doesn't have, or is its own, console processor--it's a micro I guess that makes a Vax-11/750 a micro. When you hit control-P on the console, the CPU goes in to console mode and Unix (or VMS) stops running. You can exit console mode and restart the OS (which, assuming you havn't missed and essential interrupts may or may not work). -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"