Re: Re: What is a Mainframe?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1989 23:18

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In article <2700018@prisma> mo@prisma writes:
>Minicomputers can be moved by two or three people at once (again
>the number of trips unspecified)

Mike, you have obviously never tried to push a fully-configured rack-mount
Sun up a ramp! :-)  (I refuse to believe that a 3/180 is a mainframe.)

With that reservation, actually, that's not a bad classification.
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