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In article <8442@june.cs.washington.edu> drk@uw-june.UUCP (Dan Kerns) writes:
* In article mat@uts.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor) writes:
* >We could start a whole new debate - what is a mainframe?  We make them...
* This could really be interesting.  What with micro-mainframes,...
* So, what is a mainframe?
Wellllll........  A mainframe is:
  1)  a way to use up computational horsepower in "managing" user "access"
      instead of making it available to the users.
  2)  a way to increase the importance of the "MIS" manager's position.
  3)  a way to minimize the users' control over the work they need to do.
  4)  a way to justify exorbitant software costs.
  5)  not the same as a shared (files, I/O, archive, mail, etc.) server.
  6)  not the same as a shared, high-performance computational server.
  7)  not the same as a shared (database, transaction, etc.) server.
  8)  any hardware implementation which allocates more cost to user separation
      than to user service.
Grrruuuuummmmmppphhhh?