29 Jan
2013
29 Jan
'13
7:08 a.m.
On 29 January 2013 07:43, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
It's not a mainframe, but I'd still call it
"big iron" relative to
the size of most machines today. The LCM's KL10 (which,
by the way, doesn't seem to be responding over Telnet)
would certainly qualify. Fun exercise in semantics: does the
TOAD-1 qualify?
Depends on whether you use the term "big iron" to refer exclusively to
mainframes and superminis, or as any form of big system.
In the former case the TOAD-1 is most definitely "big iron" as it is a
descendant of the KL-10, which is most assuredly a mainframe.
In the latter case, not so much.
Cheers,
Christian