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    A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk...
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  • IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the computer market with the 7000 series...
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  • Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by businesses and academic institutions for large-scale processes. Before personal computers, first termed...
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    Midrange computers, or midrange systems, were a class of computer systems that fell in between mainframe computers and microcomputers.[failed verification]...
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    New Jersey, and Florida. The former role of a computer operator was to work with mainframe computers which required a great deal of management day-to-day...
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    tape/card readers, like mainframes and unlike most personal computers, but require less space and electrical power than a typical mainframe. This term has fallen...
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  • constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers...
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  • some more obscure computer sizes. There are different sizes like minicomputers, microcomputers, mainframe computers and super computers. These are mainly...
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  • A mainframe audit is a comprehensive inspection of computer processes, security, and procedures, with recommendations for improvement. A mainframe computer...
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    Video game (redirect from Computer games)
    video-like output from large, room-sized mainframe computers. The first consumer video game was the arcade video game Computer Space in 1971, which took inspiration...
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    implementations of the programming language Lisp for the IBM 704 mainframe computer. It was Russell who realized that the concept of universal functions...
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    distributed worldwide, running on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. Many modern concepts in multi-user computing were first developed...
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    (Russian: Урал) is a series of mainframe computers built in the former Soviet Union. The Ural was developed at the Electronic Computer Producing Manufacturer...
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  • The BUNCH was the nickname for the group of mainframe computer competitors of IBM in the 1970s. The name is derived from the names of the five companies:...
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    computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff...
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    circuit board. Large mainframe computers used ICs to increase storage and processing abilities. The 1965 IBM System/360 mainframe computer family are sometimes...
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    Minicomputer (redirect from Mini-computer)
    general-purpose computer mostly developed from the mid-1960s, built significantly smaller and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from...
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    attempted to implement systems like Dungeons & Dragons on university mainframe computers. While initially niche, RPGs would soon become mainstream on consoles...
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    Hybrid computer Harvard architecture Von Neumann architecture Complex instruction set computer Reduced instruction set computer Supercomputer Mainframe computer...
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    speakers. Power and data connections vary between phones. A mainframe computer is a much larger computer that typically fills a room and may cost many hundreds...
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  • mainframe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A mainframe computer is a type of large data processing system. Mainframe may also refer to: Mainframe Studios...
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    MU-TH-R 182 model 2.1 terabyte AI Mainframe/"Mother" (more commonly seen now as "MU/TH/UR 6000"), the onboard computer on the commercial spacecraft Nostromo...
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  • The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) (category Mainframe games)
    popularity with the students, it was deleted from the school district's mainframe computer at the end of the school semester. Rawitsch recreated the game in...
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    IBM 700/7000 series (category IBM transistorized computers)
    The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale (mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes...
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    Microcomputer (redirect from Micro-computer)
    predecessors to these computers, mainframes and minicomputers, were comparatively much larger and more expensive (though indeed present-day mainframes such as the...
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    Computers designed or built in Britain include: Acorn Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn...
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    in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by...
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  • Mainframe Studios to return to their "Mainframe Entertainment" name roots. The company is best known for the production of the first fully computer-animated...
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    to minicomputers or mainframe computers and often had a green or amber screen. Typically terminals communicate with the computer via a serial port via...
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  • The EOT character is used in legacy communications protocols by mainframe computer manufacturers such as IBM, Burroughs Corporation, and the BUNCH. Terminal...
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