10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
9:26 a.m.
Mainframe - Minicomputer = RAS and order magnitude better I/O
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 7:42 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
size.
Similarly, supercomputers tend to be physically small, because it can't be
really fast if it's big -- speed of light considerations. That's why
supercomputer design has a major packaging and cooling element to it. Both
the CDC 6600 (1964) and the Cray 1 show this very clearly: a great deal of
effort went into making them unusually small for the amount of stuff inside.
You can't really get inside a 6600. You can get inside a Cray 1, just
barely.
paul
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On Mar 10, 2023, at 10:05 AM, Kevin Monceaux via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 03:51:44PM -0600, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
decked
I always considered a mainframe to basically be a
"fully decked out"
minicomputer.
I've always considered a fully decked out minicomputer to be a fully
out minicomputer. :-)
> What do you guys think? Or is a mainframe one of those giants so
large,
you walk
inside its CPU?
Mainframes used to be that large. But these days it's hard to tell by