Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpldola!hp-lsd!prisma!mo From: mo@prisma Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe? Message-ID: <2700016@prisma> Date: 7 Jun 89 14:11:00 GMT References: <8442@june> Lines: 4 I/O rates. You didn't mention I/O rates. Large computers can do Large I/O, regardless of the binary encoding of their instruction set. -Mike