21 Aug
2010
21 Aug
'10
6:34 a.m.
On 20 Aug 2010 at 22:42, Eric Smith wrote:
IBM System p, which is a POWER7 platform integrating
what was known as
System i, formerly known as iSeries, and before that, AS/400, which
was largely derived from the even earlier System/38.
Does IBM call it a minicomputer in its marketing literature? I'm
just wondering if the mainframe, mini and micro terms are vanishing.
After all, *everything* is a microcomputer nowadays, isn't it?
--Chuck
If so, what makes them a minicomputer?
History? Or that it doesn't fit very well in either the minicomputer
or mainframe categories?