24 Jan
2014
24 Jan
'14
2:22 p.m.
On 24/01/2014 21:20, William Donzelli wrote:
No! IBM did make "Mini Computers" e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=IBM_Series/1
Just not many.......
... as for System/3 & system/36 (and System/38) they are not "minis" in
the DEC sense of the word.
Not sure how you define "mini" to exclude them, as they are the right
size....
But :-
I guess I would want a "mini" to have a "bus" and these don't have
a BUS.
I would want to be able to write my own OS and you can't do that on
these. ....
I guess the IBM1130 and IBM1800 were also "minis", as they were used in
that sort of way....
I guess we could discuss this for ages, but does any one else consider
the S/36 to be a "mini"....
Dave
I don't
think any one would or should assume DEC was the first. Whilst I
think many would agree that they made more than any one else and were the
most successful dedicated maker,
Well, except for IBM. Oh wait, they are not
"minicomputers", they are
"midrange"...Wait, what?
See the problem here?
--
Will