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Word: superminis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1986-1986
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IBM: It's Not Easy Being Blue | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

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