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by lproven 1364 days ago
Yes, no argument there.

All I'd say is this: "midrange" is an IBM sales concept, and I don't think it was ever really used much outside IBM.

"Minicomputer" is a generally-accepted industry term, or at least, it was once. Minicomputers were not specific to IBM, just as mainframes weren't either.