15 Jul
2000
15 Jul
'00
7:52 p.m.
Well, I think they had a good score with the AS/400.
Its been the king of
minis for some time now, bypassing even the mighty
PDP-11 in numbers.
You are right of course, but doesn't it depend on your definition of mini?
Not everybody would call say a System 34 a mini, let alone a AS/400. But
this would be mincing
words.
Wim
15 Jul
15 Jul
4:28 p.m.
There is a system/1 emulation on the mac emulation page (www.emulation.com)
where can I find out more about this machine?
11:03 p.m.
You are right of course, but doesn't it depend on
your definition of mini?
Not everybody would call say a System 34 a mini, let alone a AS/400. But
this would be mincing
words.
What could an S/34 or AS/400 be other than a mini? Certainly they are not
micros, nor are the mainframes. Other than the S/38 and AS/400. with
their bizzare mega CISC object based architecture, the other members of
the family have all had fairly standard mini architectures. The only real
difference is that these IBM minis are not very good at math, but excell
in character and string manipulating.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
8774
days inactive
8775
days old
2 comments
3 participants
participants (3)
-
aw288＠osfn.org -
hofmanwb＠worldonline.nl -
rhudson＠ix.netcom.com