19 Oct
1998
19 Oct
'98
9:54 a.m.
"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
In fact, it seems there are mainframes faster than
even a 486-33.
So, I guess Intel outran the mainframe systems only recently.
Irrelevant to the discussion for two reasons:
1) No one has made mainframes out of discrete transistors since the
late 60s.
2) Almost all modern mainframes are based on monolithic microprocessors.