[rescue] Perverse Question

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez 
wrote:
>>    Well...there are reasons why those firms typically run their big
>> stuff on mainframes.
>
> Well a lot of the mission critical stuff is handled by stratus or 
> tandem
> machines, not mainframes. :)

   I know zero about Stratus machines...but the last Tandem system I saw 
in a financial institution's computer room consisted of HUNDREDS of 
racks.  I'd call that a mainframe. ;)

        -Dave

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