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Subject: Re: Mainframes vs micros
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Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 16:49:50 EST
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From: tim@tomcat.Caltech.Edu (Tim Kay)
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In article <2839@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
>In article <196@unisoft.UUCP> curt@charming.UUCP (Curt Mayer) writes:
>        How many does yours have?  It does seem kind of unfair, comparing
>multi-CPU mainframes with single-CPU micros and saying "Look at how much faster
>the mainframes are!".

That is exactly the point!  There are people submitting to this newsgroup
articles that claim that those same PCs (or their future models) will
replace mainframes like the Cyber.

Timothy L. Kay				tim@csvax.caltech.edu
Department of Computer Science
Caltech, 256-80
Pasadena, CA  91125