[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Henry Crun]

On 08/02/2023 0:35, 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.
> --scott
> 

I seem to remember some definitions thus:

Microcomputer: At the day's end, you switch it off and go home

Minicomputer: Send a message to all users "System going down in...", and run a shutdown routine

Mainframe: Wadda ya mean, switch it off??

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