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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
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Posted: Fri Jan  2 23:07:18 1987
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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