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To: AngelesCrestHighway

"refrigerator-size"?

The author obviously has never seen a mainframe.

4 posted on 04/11/2014 2:14:18 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)

To: Da Bilge Troll

“The author obviously has never seen a mainframe. “

PDP11, is not that big. A VAX 9000 is perhaps three fridges in a row, so yeah, they are not all fridge-size.

Add in the peripheral stuff and cooling and the suspended floor, and the bulk goes way up!

7 posted on 04/11/2014 2:18:48 PM PDT by DBrow

To: Da Bilge Troll

or has a clue about what one is...

Typical low-information journalism/blogging

18 posted on 04/11/2014 2:49:52 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)

To: Da Bilge Troll

Real mainframes required plumbing. The refrigerator sized mainframes are air cooled.

Western civilization runs on MVS.

23 posted on 04/11/2014 3:21:40 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski

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