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From: ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: Survey
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Date: 10 Sep 90 23:10:59 GMT
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Reply-To: ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft)
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In article <1990Sep10.153946.7269@crl.dec.com> wojcik@crl.dec.com writes:
>I guess the point I'm trying to make is that there isn't any single attribute
>that makes an installation "large".  By their very nature, mainframes
>usually have big user communities and a big farm of disks.  By the same token,
>large clusters of workstations generally have big user communities and a disk
>server with a big farm of disks.  It's my feeling that the two styles of
>computing have more in things in commmon than not.  FWIW.

Point well taken.  I think we have established enough direction to start
discussions in the topic area.
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