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.