25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
11:25 a.m.
Philip Belben wrote:
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.
Peace... Sridhar