On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:40:45 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote: >I thought the announcement said that this was the first mainframe that could >upgraded to a bigger machine without having to rewrite all your code. I >read the presentation yesterday, so I may have forgotten, but that's what I >thought it meant.
The announcement doesn't even use the term "mainframe". It simply calls it a computer. And it references other computers. -- Tom Marchant >"Howard Brazee" wrote: > > >> On 7 Apr 2009 12:24:29 -0700, [email protected] (Harbeck, Reg) wrote: >> >>>I just wanted to take a moment to wish the IBM mainframe a Happy 45th >>>Birthday (see >>>http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.htm >>>l)! >> >> It seems to be saying that the System/360 was the first mainframe. >> What is the definition of "mainframe" being used here? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
