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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Can old architectures run fast?
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Date: 7 May 91 16:01:34 GMT
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In article <1991May7.130302.22332@vlsi.waterloo.edu>, ward@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Paul Ward) writes:
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>A meaningless question - how can you possibly compare price performance of
>a workstation (typically a single or a few user machine) with an IBM mainframe
>which can support 400+ users concurrently?  If anything, the major difference
>between PCs, workstations, minis and mainframes is the IO bandwidth, not
>the processor performance. 

And the service contracts :-)


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