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Meanings of mainframes in English

Russian
мейнфрейм
Portuguese
mainframe
Catalan
ordinador central
Spanish
computadora central
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Computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications.

мейнфрейм
Usage of mainframes in English
1
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
4
Read more about mainframes and supercomputers in Computerworld's Mainframes and Supercomputers Topic Center.
Reuters
5
Actually back then there were still not that many mainframes around the world.
The new yorker
6
Many legacy applications are running on mainframes and proprietary Unix platforms.
Reuters
7
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
9
Kapor moved to Boston in 1974 and got a job programming mainframes in COBOL.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
10
Before personal computers there were mainframes; huge room sized computers to crunch on numbers.
Terminal Compromise
11
The mainframes and their facets swept up the strongest, most well-provisioned and organized pockets.
Sea of Rust
12
Us walking AIs were closer now to humans than we were to the mainframes.
Sea of Rust
13
In the beginning IBM, then a manufacturer of mainframes, adopted the slogan: Machines should work.
The Guardian
14
That meant accessing local, state, and federal computer mainframes.
Patient Zero
15
Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes.
The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000
16
The inaccessibility of mainframes made them easy to demonise.
The Guardian
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mainframe
Mainframes through the time