20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
5:25 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Jim Brain wrote:
Maybe, the best contemporary definition is "a
current computing system that
can natively execute code written in a machine architecture commercially
available before 1970" (or some arbitrary date that covers the various
machines one typically identifies with a mainframe moniker). Note that this
would preclude such Hitachi systems that actually run on Xeon CPUs and
emulate the z Architecture, but I'm sure some wordsmithing could fix that
while keeping things like Hercules emulator from falling into the
definition's space.
I see that Unisys is moving their machinery over to using Xeon CPUs. What
does that make the new Unisys machines?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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