20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
3:26 a.m.
From: Terry Stewart
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:09 PM
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Terry Stewart
<terry at webweavers.co.nz>>wrote:
> So can I gather that there is no clear definition
and Jim's is
> probably the nearest thing that comes to defining a mainframe
> these days...for those people that use the term?
This is what wikipedia says about it...would others
agree?
For what it's worth, I agree with the main points of the Wikipedia
article. It's certainly in line with what I would tell a visitor not
familiar with the field of Information Systems as part of an overall
definition of what a computer is and a description of what a computer
can do.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/