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From: ro... Keenan Royle
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 16:37

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The origin of the terms mini- or micro- computer are relatively strait forward,
but how about mainframe.

When was this term first used to describe large computers and what the
hell does it mean anyway?

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From: ro...@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: name origin
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Date: 14 Mar 90 16:37:05 GMT
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