20 Feb
2012
20 Feb
'12
5:31 a.m.
On Feb 20, 2012, at 12:25 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Jim Brain wrote:
PCs!
I'll bet several people got Intel-branded yachts for making that move.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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?