22 Aug
2010
22 Aug
'10
4:37 p.m.
MikeS wrote:
Message: 13
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:49:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: Origin of the term minicomputer (was Re: PDP-1 as
minicomputer
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, William Donzelli wrote:
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There's no doubt that the 520 was an historic machine, and my cat
loves the rumble all the 7013-5xx systems make.
However. Even when it was current, the -520 was amazingly,
painfully, hemorrhoid-inducingly SLOW.
Doc
> Pretty much, yes. I suppose the
"youngest" mini architecture is the
> RS/6000, since it originally was made of multiple gate arrays (seven
> maybe?).
ISTR the RS/6000 (68000?) being called a
microcomputer. But it was
out of
my price range.
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Gee, I just offered a nice classic RS/6000-520 that you coulda had for free
;-)
Lots o' 40-bit memory, 32 ports, SCSI HD & tape; really hated to see it
go to the dump.