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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
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Subject: Re: Hello (large)
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Date: 13 Sep 90 01:19:25 GMT
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>How about the following definition just to get the discussion started:

>	> 200 users
>	> 10 GB of disk
>	> 50 Mips

I don't want to define large either, but then I especially don't
want any person who thinks a VAX-11/780 is or was a mainframe to
denote what large is less so (it ain't).  You should be thinking
Giga everything, planning Tera-[not the company] for the near future,
and you have gone to look up the next set of prefixes from a dictionary
(e.g., eta, peta, eka).

If you have to ask to define, you aren't there yet. 8^)

--e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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  50 MIPS? you can get that on one of the new vector multiprocessor
  single user workstations.....