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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Message-ID: <2750@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 12:45:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.001346.4139@Stardent.COM> <8052@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <8052@scolex.sco.COM> seanf (Sean Fagan) writes:

| I'm still wondering at why it's being called a 'supermini'...

  Compare it to the mini's being sold at the time, and the mainframes.
The VAX was a major step forward in price/performance.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.