[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Scott Dorsey]

gah4  <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>The 360/30 is a little bigger, and might not have that.
>
>Some will question exactly how big one has to be to be a real mainframe.
>
>And VAX were some that had that asked of them.  Even in the beginning.

Being a mainframe is less about size than about I/O throughput.  The vax
was no mainframe.  The DECSYSTEM-20 was a mainframe.  DEC's customers knew
the difference even if DEC's marketing people had no clue.
--scott

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