On 01/29/2013 09:54 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
I'd always
considered VAX-en to be minicomputers. Does anyone remember the
term "midi-computer?"
No, because the only people that used that term were people writing
textbooks for schools.
Here's a CW article from 1975 that even headlines the term:
http://tinyurl.com/bx5yypw
It makes interesting reading and the first paragraph is particularly
germane to the discussion.
But to be perfectly fair, it *was* the 70s.
--Chuck