[rescue] Intel Mainframes (was: IKEA "Jerker" desk...)

[Patrick Finnegan]

Andrew Weiss declared on Monday 16 February 2004 05:13 pm:
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >>> Somewhere, there's bound to be someone really pissed off about
> >>> "data centre" being morphed into the current meaning. After all,
> >>> it's obviously only intended to refer to rooms of disk farm(s).
> >>
> >> What chaps my hide is when "large database" became "data
> >> warehouse".
> >
> >   *CRINGE!*
>
> OR how about big unknown computers... either ones that aren't
> understood (the non-Intel variety) or even WORSE... large Intel
> boxes... are called mainframes.


Oh, you mean like a Paragon?  I think I'd call that more of a 
supercomputer than a Mainframe, per se.
 
Pat
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