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| Author: | Keller, W. J. |
| Title: | Has the mini met its match? |
| Journal: | Datamation
1990 : MAY 1, VOL. 36:9, p. 62-64, 66 |
| Index terms: | PERSONAL COMPUTERS MINICOMPUTERS COMPUTER SYSTEMS COMPUTER INDUSTRY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Powerful personal computers (PCs) are pushing themselves into territory once occupied exclusively by minis and mainframes. With the application of the usual benchmarks it is shown that in many performance categories PCs compare favourably with minicomputers costing several times more. Only I/0 bandwidth does the CDC minicomputer significantly outperform PCs. Bandwidth is defined here as the maximum speed by which data can get in and out of memory. Another way to compare micros with minis is to examine the disk performance. A minicomputer disk and controller combination is found not much different from its PC brethren. The art of handling tens of hundreds of gigabytes is still the realm of proprietary mainframe systems. |
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