14 Dec
2000
14 Dec
'00
6:07 p.m.
From: Neil Cherry <ncherry(a)home.net>
Most VAX are mini's (at least in my Opinion).
I'm not sure exactly what
decides that a machine is a Main frame, a mini and a micro (yes I know
most desktops are micro's).
A MicrovaxII in a BA32 is a mini. I VAX6440 is a super mini. VAX9000
certainly qualifies as MAINFRAME.
The '80s blurred mini/mainframe and VAX and AS400 type machines
were doing their best to foster that. The VAX (11/780!) was originally
called a superminicomputer. Then again a 8250 with a disk farm was
anything but mini.
Allison