5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
2:17 p.m.
"the mainframe world" acceptance of a CPU is
the stupidest-ass thing
a company could ever ever want.
I think it was more than just CPU - a effort to get VAX and VMS into
the mainframe market, rather than skirt the edges of it.
I am not sure I agree with you about it being stupid. There always has
been a large amount of money in the mainframe world. The market IS
money, if you think about it. Bankers will always be richer than
professors.
There are about ten thousand markets that DEC served
quite well, and
it's a shame they put all that effort and money into neglecting those
markets and trying to do a mainframe.
Who was pushing it?
Stack it up with all those other CPU's without
peripherals, huh? :-).
Which string of DASDs should I roll over your foot?
Mainframes are really good at some things, sometimes
they are decent
number crunchers in terms of pure FLOPS but it has been three to four
decades since they delivered any punch in terms of FLOPS per dollar.
Well, the KL10 is reaching that 3 or 4 decade point!
--
Will