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by masswerk 509 days ago
I can kind of see why this should have been. The 1401, which was really intended as a replacement for IBM's punchcard appliances, was widely known as IBM's small mainframe. On the other hand, there are the 701, things like the 7030 (Stretch), and then the ranges of the S/360 and S/370. – Considering this rather inconceivable wide class of machines, stepping in and deciding, what's a mainframe and what's not, is a losing game, from a marketing perspective. So better keep silent and reap the fruits…