Message: 13
 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:49:19 -0700 (PDT)
 From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
 Subject: Re: Origin of the term minicomputer (was Re: PDP-1 as
 minicomputer
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 On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, William Donzelli wrote:
 > Pretty much, yes. I suppose the
"youngest" mini architecture is the
> RS/6000, since it originally was made of multiple gate arrays (seven
> maybe?). 
  ISTR the RS/6000 (68000?) being called a
microcomputer.  But it was
 out of
 my price range. 
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 Gee, I just offered a nice classic RS/6000-520 that you coulda had for free
 ;-)
 Lots o' 40-bit memory, 32 ports, SCSI HD & tape; really hated to see it
 go to the dump. 
   (Please change the Subject: when you reply from the digest.)
   There's no doubt that the 520 was an historic machine, and my cat
loves the rumble all the 7013-5xx systems make.
   However.  Even when it was current, the -520 was amazingly,
painfully,  hemorrhoid-inducingly SLOW.
        Doc