HOw many PC's make an Amdahl mainframe

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From: Gints Klimanis
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:22

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An Amdahl CEO in yesterday's San Jose Mercury news claimed there was no
room in the world that could how enough personal computers to match the
power of an Amdahl mainframe.  Any guesses  as to the # of PC's and disk
drives required to match this Amdahl Mount Everest of computing?

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