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Article #21546What is a Mainframe?
From: Dan Kerns
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1989 02:31
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1989 02:31
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In article mat@uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor) writes: >We could start a whole new debate - what is a mainframe? We make them >but I'm not sure that there is a well-understood definition. This could really be interesting. What with micro-mainframes, mainframes-on-a-chip, mainframe-pc's... So, what is a mainframe? -- Dan Kerns drk@cs.washington.edu U of Washington Computer Science
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!drk From: drk@june.cs.washington.edu (Dan Kerns) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: What is a Mainframe? Keywords: high-performance Message-ID: <8442@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 3 Jun 89 02:31:32 GMT References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20752@winchester.mips.COM> <26207@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <69i602JV30vA01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Reply-To: drk@uw-june.UUCP (Dan Kerns) Distribution: comp.arch Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 11