Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Mainframes and Macs
Summary: Transaction Processing
Message-ID: <2439@geac.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 00:47:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2439
Posted: Fri Mar 11 19:47:25 1988
References: <8803082313.AA01918@infinet.uucp>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The Geac Computer Company, no less.
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In article <8803082313.AA01918@infinet.uucp> harvard!ulowell!infinet!rhorn@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Rob Horn) writes:
>
>Re: Mainframes  (They aren't general purpose any more)
>...  The mainframe makers are doing this kind of analysis and
>offer the software that is tuned for transactions.  The academics and
>engineering researchers mostly ignore this market.
>
>If the new machines are tuned to meet the needs of transactions they
>will probably beat mainframes with ease.  But they may also start to
>look a lot like mainframes themselves.

  Well, the academics are getting interested: there was a conference
announced recently on transaction machine architectures.
  We're not presenting there, but Geac is in the business of
producing high-peformance transaction-processing machines (multiple
cpu, high reliability, high connectivity, built out of fast
bitslicers for the library and financial markets).  Alive and well
in Canada.

 --dave (a Vax makes a poor 8000. An 8000 makes a poor Vax) c-b
-- 
 David Collier-Brown.                 {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb
 Geac Computers International Inc.,   |  Computer Science loses its
 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, |  memory (if not its mind) 
 CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 |  every 6 months.