Re: What is a mainframe?

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From: Samuel Fuller
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 02:37

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In article <34038@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>>What is a mainframe?  It's an OBSOLETE COMPUTER!
>>
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>>brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp

>There of course exists that relatively small group of customers with
>massive hunger like the American Expresses, Master Cards and JC
>Penneys of the world who can still swallow these machines in one gulp.

>So, I'd agree that mainframes are mostly obsolete for all but perhaps
>the fortune 500 companies who really do need to quickly manage on the
>order of hundreds of gigabytes of data in a timely matter.
>

I find it hard to believe that a 50 Billion plus dollar-per-year business
can be considered obsolete or even mostly obsolete.  The mainframe
segment of the computer market continues to grow and will probably
be around for a lot longer than most of the posters to this newsgroup
would like to believe.

What is a mainframe? It's a commercial/business supercomputer.

Sam Fuller / Amdahl System Performance Architecture
My Opinions.

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From: sbf10@uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller)
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Subject: Re: What is a mainframe?
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Date: 30 Jun 89 02:37:17 GMT
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