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Meanings of mainframes in anglès

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Computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications.

ordinador central
Usage of mainframes in anglès
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They started by shutting down the mainframes as quickly as they could.
Sea of Rust
2
The mainframes did the calculations that helped get them back to earth.
Wired
3
DeCom are running state-of-the-art gear and more capacity than most AI mainframes.
Woken furies
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Read more about mainframes and supercomputers in Computerworld's Mainframes and Supercomputers Topic Center.
Reuters
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Actually back then there were still not that many mainframes around the world.
The new yorker
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Many legacy applications are running on mainframes and proprietary Unix platforms.
Reuters
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Its high-speed gallium arsenide processors drove Convex, Sun, and HP mainframes and supercomputers.
Wired
8
Additionally, mainframes were often leased rather than owned, and leasing agreements included servicing contracts.
The Irish Times
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Kapor moved to Boston in 1974 and got a job programming mainframes in COBOL.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
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Before personal computers there were mainframes; huge room sized computers to crunch on numbers.
Terminal Compromise
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The mainframes and their facets swept up the strongest, most well-provisioned and organized pockets.
Sea of Rust
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Us walking AIs were closer now to humans than we were to the mainframes.
Sea of Rust
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In the beginning IBM, then a manufacturer of mainframes, adopted the slogan: Machines should work.
The Guardian
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That meant accessing local, state, and federal computer mainframes.
Patient Zero
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Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes.
The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
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The inaccessibility of mainframes made them easy to demonise.
The Guardian
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