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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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    also could include printers or a Braille embosser. A mainframe computer is a much larger computer that typically fills a room and may cost many hundreds...
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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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    Hybrid computer Harvard architecture Von Neumann architecture Complex instruction set computer Reduced instruction set computer Supercomputer Mainframe computer...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    minicomputers and mainframes, time-sharing by many people at the same time is not used with personal computers. The term home computer has also been used...
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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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    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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    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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  • some more obscure computer sizes. There are different sizes like minicomputers, microcomputers, mainframe computers and super computers. These are mainly...
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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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    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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  • 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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    connect with a mainframe computer but that did not stop owners from using its built-in computational abilities as a stand-alone desktop computer. The HP 9800...
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  • Host (network) (redirect from Host computer)
    that provides services to smaller or less capable devices, such as a mainframe computer serving teletype terminals or video terminals. Other examples of this...
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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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  • A mainframe audit is a comprehensive inspection of computer processes, security, and procedures,with recommendations for improvement. A mainframe computer...
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    popular that it dominated the mainframe computer market for decades and left a legacy that is continued by similar modern computers like the IBM zSeries. In...
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    1995) was an IBM mainframe computer at Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory. "Phoenix/MVS" was also the name of the computer's operating system...
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    Star Trek (1971 video game) (category Mainframe games)
    wrote the game in the BASIC programming language for the SDS Sigma 7 mainframe computer with the goal of creating a game like Spacewar! (1962) that could...
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    a user's account. A mainframe computer could cost millions of dollars and usage was measured in seconds per job. Smaller computers like the IBM 1620 and...
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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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  • personal computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers...
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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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  • detected sequentially by scanning the X lines. The first computer keyboards were for mainframe computer data terminals and used discrete electronic parts. The...
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