29 Jan
2013
29 Jan
'13
3:22 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:08:11AM -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
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.
DEC never made a mainframe and nobody from DEC ever asserted they did AFAIK.
It's odd to see posts claiming DEC made mainframes or that VAX is big iron
from a group where calling a DE9 a DB9 produces a
500-thread post ;-)
Stop the hysterical revisionism. DEC made minis. Minis are not big iron.