On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:50 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700 > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >> Linuxguy123 wrote: > >>> How is it working for you ? > >> I run it on an Acer Aspire One. Works fine. > > > > *blink* Is THAT what he meant by minicomputer? How could you possibly call > > something like that a mini? "See my tractor-trailer rig" and I show you a > > Honda Civic with trailer hitch? > > Well, I'm assuming that's what s/he meant. I, too, am of the old school > where "mainframes" were S/370s, Sigmas and the like; "minis" were > PDP-11s, Vaxen, Novas and their ilk; and "micros" were anything smaller. > With "laptops", "portables" and "netbooks", the lines are even fuzzier. I feel the same way about the "Mini" moniker. I guess its somewhat justified that the netbooks are called Minis because they have more computing power than the old minis (PDP 11 et al) did. There isn't anything mini about a PDP11 any more... except if you compare its size to an old mainframe. Its astonishing to think how much processing power we can buy for ~$400 these days. (See HP Mini 311, for example...) 30 years ago $400 would have bought less than a day's computing time. Now it buys an entire machine that is way faster and nicer. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
