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From: drk@june.cs.washington.edu (Dan Kerns)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: What is a Mainframe?
Keywords: high-performance
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Date: 3 Jun 89 02:31:32 GMT
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In article mat@uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor) writes:
>We could start a whole new debate - what is a mainframe?  We make them
>but I'm not sure that there is a well-understood definition.

This could really be interesting.  What with micro-mainframes,
mainframes-on-a-chip, mainframe-pc's...

So, what is a mainframe?
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				Dan Kerns	drk@cs.washington.edu
				U of Washington Computer Science