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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Re: What is a Mainframe?
Message-ID: <568@unicads.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 22:24:20 GMT
References: <8442@june> <2700018@prisma> <1989Jul17.231819.27809@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
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In article <1989Jul17.231819.27809@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <2700018@prisma> mo@prisma writes:
>>Minicomputers can be moved by two or three people at once (again
>
>Mike, you have obviously never tried to push a fully-configured rack-mount
>Sun up a ramp! :-)  (I refuse to believe that a 3/180 is a mainframe.)

I saw 4 [BIG] guys brute-force a VAX11/785 with disks out to the loading
dock.  this is like picking up my Subaru wagon (volume-wise and weight wise).
Don't get Steve Cohen from Norfolk VA mad at you; he could probably _throw_
that rack-mount-sun up the ramp at you.

A new data-point for the taxonomy:  a _Multi_processor_ has more than 0.1%
of its weight in silicon (or GaAs).  waddya think of _that_, folks?
the hughes tuna-can probably qualifies.  maybe a bunch of transputers
wafers bonded onto a ceramic multilayer substrate would too.
Sir Clive's wafer-scale ramdisk might (what ever happened to that,
anyway?)

i mean we got literally tons of sun's around here, but there's probably
less than a gram of Si in the lot, not counting dust in the filters.
It _is_ a nice network, tho, works F***in Great.

Led Z. Milash