Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!unisoft!curt From: curt@charming.uucp (Curt Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Mainframes vs micros Message-ID: <196@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Jan-87 23:07:18 EST Article-I.D.: unisoft.196 Posted: Fri Jan 2 23:07:18 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Jan-87 03:36:15 EST References: <653@imsvax.UUCP> Sender: news@unisoft.UUCP Reply-To: curt@charming.UUCP (Curt Mayer) Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA Lines: 21 Summary: Throughput vs. speed In article <653@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) bs's: >You will always be one of 300 people trying to use a mainframe at the >same time, and the legitimate comparison is between an AT and whatever >fraction of a mainframe's capabilities you are ever likely, in the real >world, to be able to use. Give me a break. I have never seen a CDC cyber with more than 05% load. This is in a university environment with 700+ users, no less. >As I see it, the day of the expensive computer is about over. It is only for >super-computer applications such as weather forecasting and really big database >applications that they could be justified at all any more, and the small >machines will be capable of those activities in another couple of years. have you ever seen a 5000 line program compile in less time than it takes for the print head to return on a DecWriter? Guess not. give mister J-Random Spreadsheeter his AT, I'll keep the real machines for real work. curt