9 Sep
1998
9 Sep
'98
2:07 a.m.
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Hans Franke wrote:
A previous employer of mine bought a cool mini/PC several years ago: An
NCR 3000 series. Could handle something like 8 CPU cards with multiple
pentiums, had a UPS in the cabinet, 50 some hot-swappable SCSI bays, 512MB
of ram, multiple micro-channel buses and SCSI adapters, SVr4, etc.
On the back of the small-refrigerator sized box were a PC-style VGA and
keyboard connector! It would boot and run MS-DOS ;) hahaha.
-Wayne
These days, a
mini. Look at one of Suns Ultra Enterprise systems -
essentially as many UltraSPARC CPUs that you want to shove in one box.
So this PC, I'm curently working on, on my desktop with 4 CPUs
and Win 3.51, is a Mini ? Gosh - I always thought is was just an