25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
11:48 a.m.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Philip Belben wrote:
You can lose an entire service team in a SAGE.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
My personal one, which I think I got from a
marketing leaflet for the
IBM 9370, is that a mainframe requires a computer room, while a
minicomputer shares a room with other equipment (office desks with
terminals, machine tools it controls, or whatever).
This is not to say that some users didn't put their minicomputer(s) in a
separate room; but the computers didn't require it.
You can lose a screw in a micro. You can lose a screwdriver in a mini.
You can lose a service engineer in a mainframe.