Computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications.
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They started by shutting down the mainframes as quickly as they could.
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The mainframes did the calculations that helped get them back to earth.
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DeCom are running state-of-the-art gear and more capacity than most AI mainframes.
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Actually back then there were still not that many mainframes around the world.
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Many legacy applications are running on mainframes and proprietary Unix platforms.
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Its high-speed gallium arsenide processors drove Convex, Sun, and HP mainframes and supercomputers.
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Additionally, mainframes were often leased rather than owned, and leasing agreements included servicing contracts.
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Kapor moved to Boston in 1974 and got a job programming mainframes in COBOL.
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Before personal computers there were mainframes; huge room sized computers to crunch on numbers.
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The mainframes and their facets swept up the strongest, most well-provisioned and organized pockets.
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Us walking AIs were closer now to humans than we were to the mainframes.
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In the beginning IBM, then a manufacturer of mainframes, adopted the slogan: Machines should work.
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That meant accessing local, state, and federal computer mainframes.
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Probably from analogy with hardware front-ends (see sense 1) that interfaced with mainframes.
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The inaccessibility of mainframes made them easy to demonise.