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To: John Mansfield who wrote (694)5/19/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: David Eddy  Read Replies (1) of 1361
 
John -

[I know you know better, but this is for the lurkers...]

The world is run by about 50,000 mainframes from IBM and other mainframe manufacturer

That 50,000 number is way off... try:

15,000 IBM MVS mainframes
40,000 IBM DOS/VSE midrange
400,000 IBM AS/400 midrange
500,000 DEC VAX midrange

And we ignore Prime, Wang, Xerox, Cray, Control Data, Perkin Elmer, AT&T & another couple dozen box makers.

Sooooo... just at a first cut there are close to 1,000,000 boxes in a very narrow view of the market.

- David
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