24 Apr
2002
24 Apr
'02
3:16 p.m.
Where a mainframe's concerned, the building's the enclosure. Nobody would
confuse a mainframe costing billions to purchase and maintain over years, a
toy. Not even I would go that far.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sridhar the POWERful" <vance(a)ikickass.org>
To: "Doc" <doc(a)mdrconsult.com>
Cc: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
The VAST majority of mainframes have only external disk storage. I don't
think *anyone* would confuse an ES/9000 9221 with a toy.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Doc wrote:
> > An easy way to spot a product intended for the toy market as opposed to
one
intended to be seen as a computer, is that the disk
drive interface is
external.
Jeez, Dick. I can't believe you dragged me back into this. Where
did you find that little tidbit of inductive logic?
You're calling the entire DECstation 5000/2xx line "products
intended for the toy market as opposed to one intended to be seen as a
computer", since they have no internal mass storage. Do I think that
was a great design? No. Did _anyone_ _ever_ mistake them for a toy?
Get a grip. No matter whether or not you _like_ those DECstations, or
a score of other application-oriented computers that had
external-storage-only designs, that statement is just ludicrous.