4 Mar
2006
4 Mar
'06
3:14 p.m.
On 3/4/2006 at 5:55 PM shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
As to "what's a mainframe", as Unisys
uses the term it's a computer
used for "traditional" business purposes (financial/payroll/purchasing/
invoicing), probably running dusty-deck COBOL programs.
That could mean any minicomputer and quite a few micros of the same era.
Certainly COBOL was available for the x80 by then and many micros were
running database and the usual finiancial apps, including payroll,
inventory, AR, AP and GL.
But saying a supercomuter isn't a mainframe is bending things quite a bit,
don't you think?
Cheers,
Chuck