The debate on what per say is a mini...

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Dec 16 01:10:30 2000

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Neil Cherry wrote:

> Also there is a Buroughs' MainFrame based on the first year Moto 68K chip.
> Moto corrected a bug in the second year and it turnes out the Buroughs
> had depended on that bug. Now I know it was a mainframe as it ran a
> VM and CMS OS on it. But it is based on a micro chip. Also aren't the
> current IBM Main Frames based on a Power chip? I suspect that there is
> a lot of support chips (and probably multi processor).

It was a micro that ran VM and CMS.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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