[rescue] Perverse Question

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez 
wrote:
>>    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. ;)
>
> Heh, we have a beowulf system with tens of racks... stuffed with toasty
> pentiums... does that make it a mainframe :-)....

   No, it makes it a big pile of PCs on a network.  That Tandem was one 
computer.

> *runs as fast as possible to get away from Dave's wrath*

   Don't push my buttons, Francisco.

        -Dave

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