[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[bill]

On 2/7/2023 5:35 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

Did anyone other than the DECSYSTEM-20 users think it was or call it a
mainframe?

bill