mainframe
A term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or "main frame" of a room-filling href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Stone Age">Stone Age batch machine. After the emergence of smaller "href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=minicomputer">minicomputer" designs in the early 1970s, the traditional href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=big iron">big iron machines were described as "mainframe computers" and eventually just as mainframes. The term carries the connotation of a machine designed for batch rather than interactive use, though possibly with an interactive href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=time-sharing">time-sharing operating system retrofitted onto it it is especially used of machines built by href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=IBM">IBM, href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Unisys">Unisys and the other great href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=dinosaurs">dinosaurs surviving from computing' s {Stone Age}. It has been common wisdom among hackers since the late 1980s that the mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny market for href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=number crunching">number crunching href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=supercomputer">supercomputers (see href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Cray">Cray)), having been swamped by the recent huge advances in href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=integrated circuit">integrated circuit technology and low-cost personal computing. As of 1993, corporate America is just beginning to figure this out - the wave of failures, takeovers, and mergers among traditional mainframe makers have certainly provided sufficient omens (see href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=dinosaurs mating">dinosaurs mating). Supporters claim that mainframes still house 90% of the data major businesses rely on for mission-critical applications, attributing this to their superior performance, reliability, scalability, and security compared to microprocessors. [href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1996-07-22) In addition suitable contents:
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