Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!tdi2!brandon From: brandon@tdi2.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: The Itty Bitty Monster in trouble re: PC's? Message-ID: <128@tdi2.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 22:57:20 EST Article-I.D.: tdi2.128 Posted: Sun Dec 28 22:57:20 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 01:35:40 EST References: <650@imsvax.UUCP> <1373@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: brandon@tdi2.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Tridelta Industries, Inc., Mentor, OH Lines: 36 Quoted from <1373@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> ["Re: Many Questions/ some answers"], by news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews)... +--------------- | >allowing them to challenge minis and mainframes. And IBM? They | >invented the PC/DOS game and now they can't even play their own game | >successfully and the game is threatening to destroy their big Fortune | >500 mainframe business. Kind of like letting the genie out of the | >bottle. | | Next, I can't see how PCs are competing with minis and mainframes. An | 80[23]86 at 8 or even 16Mhz still doesn't pack a fraction of the | computing power of a Vax 11/780. And, for the work I do, a Vax is | a small machine. A 3090/400 is roughly 50 times as powerful. +--------------- An article I read in Datamation (pre-386) stated (from memory; this is not the exact quote): ``if IBM produces a machine more powerful than the AT, it will be in competition with its own System/36 line'' -- I think it was the /36, it may have been the /1 or /3, I'm not familiar with IBM's mini line. Anyway, the 386 is on its way. Frankly, I doubt that IBM will sell 386 machines, since they will then be in competition with themselves, and IBM won't want to compromize its mini sales. Given this, I suspect that people at IBM, upon hearing about the 80386, tore their clothes, shaved their hair, and put on sackcloth. The demise of the low-end IBM mainframe seems imminent. So much for IBM; their 1979 bombshell just blew up in their own offices. ++Brandon -- ``for is he not of the Children of Luthien? Never shall that line fail, though the years may lengthen beyond count.'' --J. R. R. Tolkien Brandon S. Allbery UUCP: cbatt!cwruecmp!ncoast!tdi2!brandon Tridelta Industries, Inc. CSNET: ncoast!allbery@Case 7350 Corporate Blvd. INTERNET: ncoast!allbery%Case.CSNET@relay.CS.NET Mentor, Ohio 44060 PHONE: +1 216 255 1080 (home) +1 216 974 9210