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Re: mini's, mainframe's
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:27:05 +0100
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>Gary Sielaff wrote:
>
>> What determines the difference between a mini and a mainframe?
>> just curious in Moses Lake
>
A mainframe is any machine on which the amount of utility software
needed to figure out how the application software is running exceeds the
amount of application software itself.
--
Roy Brown  'Have nothing on your systems that you do not know to be
Affirm Ltd  useful, or believe to be beautiful'. (After) Wm Morris.

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