A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk... 33 KB (3,724 words) - 08:41, 12 May 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,805 words) - 17:40, 11 May 2024 |
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... 32 KB (3,539 words) - 07:14, 28 April 2024 |
Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by businesses and academic institutions for large-scale processes. Before personal computers, first termed... 37 KB (4,012 words) - 16:09, 7 May 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,204 words) - 23:47, 25 December 2023 |
some more obscure computer sizes. There are different sizes like minicomputers, microcomputers, mainframe computers and super computers. These are mainly... 6 KB (480 words) - 21:15, 8 May 2024 |
detected sequentially by scanning the X lines. The first computer keyboards were for mainframe computer data terminals and used discrete electronic parts. The... 69 KB (8,193 words) - 17:09, 2 May 2024 |
implementations of the programming language Lisp for the IBM 704 mainframe computer. It was Russell who realized that the concept of universal functions... 6 KB (400 words) - 11:19, 12 May 2024 |
The EOT character is used in legacy communications protocols by mainframe computer manufacturers such as IBM, Burroughs Corporation, and the BUNCH. Terminal... 5 KB (663 words) - 22:14, 7 November 2023 |
mainframe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A mainframe computer is a type of large data processing system. Mainframe may also refer to: Mainframe Studios... 753 bytes (126 words) - 11:02, 1 July 2023 |
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:... 7 KB (792 words) - 22:13, 1 November 2023 |
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... 90 KB (9,674 words) - 20:45, 9 May 2024 |
History of video games (redirect from Timeline of computer and video games) in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by... 201 KB (23,325 words) - 18:57, 8 May 2024 |
Mainframe Studios to return to their "Mainframe Entertainment" name roots. The company is best known for the production of the first fully computer-animated... 43 KB (2,941 words) - 13:34, 9 May 2024 |
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... 4 KB (566 words) - 07:41, 6 May 2024 |
to minicomputers or mainframe computers and often had a green or amber screen. Typically terminals communicate with the computer via a serial port via... 49 KB (6,100 words) - 02:15, 7 May 2024 |
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... 24 KB (3,066 words) - 17:27, 19 February 2024 |
Central processing unit (redirect from Personal computer Central Processing Unit) 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... 100 KB (11,315 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2024 |
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... 22 KB (2,578 words) - 08:51, 11 April 2024 |
constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers... 92 KB (553 words) - 18:59, 9 May 2024 |
might refer to: Super Micro Computer, Inc., an American computer hardware manufacturer A supercomputer or a mainframe computer built using microcomputer... 209 bytes (56 words) - 08:19, 31 December 2022 |
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... 28 KB (2,947 words) - 15:37, 10 May 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,399 words) - 11:45, 30 April 2024 |