Paul Sayan On (07 May 96) was overheard to say to Sheila King
 PS> The concept of a mainframe is a centralized computer as a sources of
 PS> information, or a program that is not best ran on many different
 PS> computers, but on one( or a Community of Computers). Examples would be
 PS> a this BBS, or the mail system at my school, or even the centralized
 PS> computer system that runs all of the general regulattions systems for
 I think what he is talking about is nothing more or less than a file
 server accessible from many locations simultaneously.  Use of the
 term "mainframe" is misleading and a bit dated...imo....
... There's no such thing as a problem - it's either a challenge or a fact
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