Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[David SMITH <dave.smith@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:27:19AM +0200, Clayton wrote:
> >Micro in a micro-computer,was referring to the technology used in
> >creating the chips which used to be micro technology,

I was under the impression that the "micro" in micro-computer was
created in the 1970s when it referred to the fact that it was much
smaller than a "mini-computer" which was about the size of a small
refridgerator, which in turn was much smaller than what people
traditionally thought of as "computers" (i.e. room-sized mainframes).

At least, that's what I was taught at my Computer Studies lessons in
the 1980s.

> I worked in the semiconductor industry for a long time.  I know the
> subject well.  Funny though, you never seem to see SUSE in the
> industry... loads of Solaris based software though (running the wafer
> steppers and wafer scanners).

I haven't seen much use of SuSE, but lots of RHEL replacing Solaris
because the performance:price ratio is much better.  Most of the EDA
vendors seem to be standardised on RHEL.

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