4 Mar
2006
4 Mar
'06
4:04 p.m.
William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote:
Gotta remind me what ALL the tests are :-). I agree with
you that a super is not a mainframe, but cannot tell you
all the reasons why!
S = Storage maybe? Or maybe not,
certainly many of the CDC and CDC-derived supers did have channel-type
processors for peripherals, and in that way they were like mainframes.
And on a certainly tangential subject: any good books/articles
giving a historical retrospective to the "Fifth Generation" computers
of the 80's?
Tim.
But saying a
supercomuter isn't a mainframe is bending things quite a bit,
don't you think?
They tend to fail on the R, A, and S portions of the test.