Re: Mainframes vs micros

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From: Kenneth Ng
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1986 07:26

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In article <10781@lanl.ARPA>, sam@lanl.ARPA (Sam A Matthews) writes:
> []
> I would like to see someone try to get 1000+ users to access one database
> using a PC network or manage a multi-gigabyte database, or 2 or 3.  
> Come on... It will not happen in our lifetimes. 

That's the same arguement I have here at school.  People claim the vaxes
are faster than the mainframe here on campus, but they fail to realize
that the vaxes work with a load of 10, while the mainframe has a load
of around 100.

> Sam Matthews			       /\|/\     "We put a star
> sam@lanl.ARPA			     --> * <--      in a box."
> (ihnp4 or cmcl2)!lanl!sam	       \/|\/

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Subject: Re: Mainframes vs micros
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