Hello (large)

Eugene N. Miya eugene at wilbur.nas.nasa.gov
Thu Sep 13 11:19:25 AEST 1990


>How about the following definition just to get the discussion started:

>	> 200 users
>	> 10 GB of disk
>	> 50 Mips

I don't want to define large either, but then I especially don't
want any person who thinks a VAX-11/780 is or was a mainframe to
denote what large is less so (it ain't).  You should be thinking
Giga everything, planning Tera-[not the company] for the near future,
and you have gone to look up the next set of prefixes from a dictionary
(e.g., eta, peta, eka).

If you have to ask to define, you aren't there yet. 8^)

--e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene at orville.nas.nasa.gov
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
  50 MIPS? you can get that on one of the new vector multiprocessor
  single user workstations.....



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