25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
9:29 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
Open the box. Open the S-100 mainframe. Open the
individual
Wow, an S-100 mainframe. I want one of those. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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25 Apr
25 Apr
11:27 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
I don't think that *anything* that had a S-100 bus as it's primary bus
could be called a mainframe (or mini for that matter)... don't minis (and
i'm gonna extrapolate mainframes from that) usually have an asynchronous
bus like QBus/Unibus/Omnibus/etc? Anyhow, what kind of bus do S/360s and
S/370s (and old, on topic S/390s) use? (Yes, proprietary I know. how it
works I don't know.)
-- Pat
-----Original
Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
Open the box. Open the S-100 mainframe. Open
the individual
Wow, an S-100 mainframe. I want one of those. :)
Chris 
27 Apr
27 Apr
1:54 a.m.
The box+backplane+PSU was commonly referred to as the mainframe back in the
days when it mattered. I didn't invent the term. No, there was no pretense
of being equivalent, say, to a '370.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Finnegan" <pat(a)purdueriots.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
I don't think that *anything* that had a S-100 bus as it's primary bus
could be called a mainframe (or mini for that matter)... don't minis (and
i'm gonna extrapolate mainframes from that) usually have an asynchronous
bus like QBus/Unibus/Omnibus/etc? Anyhow, what kind of bus do S/360s and
S/370s (and old, on topic S/390s) use? (Yes, proprietary I know. how it
works I don't know.)
-- Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com]
Open the box. Open the S-100 mainframe. Open
the individual
Wow, an S-100 mainframe. I want one of those. :)
Chris
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