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Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe?
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Date: 8 Jun 89 02:38:52 GMT
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In all this discussion of what defines a (micro,mini,main)frame
machine, most of the discussion has been around cards versus
chips. COnsidering some of the discussion is ranging over machines
designed 20 years apart, wouldn't a much better metric be
transistor counts, with a minimum number of transistors for
each category within a 5 year span? Then, again I'm sure we
all have more important things to do than argue transistor counts ;-)

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