What amazes me is that no one has ever marketed a mainframe-like
machine out of modern processors. Someone mentioned they had made
one out of a 286 and some z80s, but why did no single company ever
sell any? I would think such machines could be very useful. OTOH, it
makes more money to sell 1000 machines than 3 machines and 1000 dumb
terminals...sometimes I wish capitalism was never invented...
>The raw CPU performance of thet 386 exceeds that of many (but not all)
of the
>discrete-transistor mainframes (and even IBM's SLT-based mainframes).
>
>However, system-level performance is another matter. How many 386
machines
>had intelligent I/O channels, *AND* took full advantage of them?
>
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Received on Mon Oct 19 1998 - 19:40:42 BST