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Article #21587Re: What is a Mainframe?
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 15:02
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1989 15:02
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I was taught that there was a fairly clear distinction between micros, minis, and mainframes: Micro: CPU substantially on one chip. Mini: CPU on a single card. Mainframe: CPU on multiple cards. I know there are machines that stretch these definitions (the PDP-8, for example) as well as machines that don't fit any of these categories (massively parallel machines, for example), but it still seems to me to be a good place to start from. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What is a Mainframe? Keywords: high-performance Message-ID: <4400@ficc.uu.net> Date: 5 Jun 89 15:02:59 GMT References: <125@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <20752@winchester.mips.COM> <8442@june.cs.washington.edu> Distribution: comp.arch Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 16