Word: superminis
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...town in a glass paperweight, doesn't describe Northampton or, fortunately, Kidder's fond but unsentimental book. The author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the development of a supermini-computer, and in House (1985), about the jostling interchanges among architect, builders and buyers of a private home...
More important, sales of large IBM mainframe computers, which account for about 70% of the company's $50 billion in revenues, are being hurt by archrival Digital Equipment Corp. DEC sells the popular VAX line of so-called superminis--midsize computers that can do the work of low-end mainframe models, often at less cost. Companies that want to link many personal-computer users together into a network can sometimes do so more cheaply with a supermini as the central computer than with a mainframe...
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