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Definition of mainframe
: a computer with its cabinet and internal circuits; also : a large fast computer that can handle multiple tasks concurrently
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There was no single, one-size-fits-all IBM mainframe.
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And just as faster and cheaper microchips drove the computer revolution from the days of room-size mainframes through the dawn of the iPhone, so does cheap DNA reading—and increasingly, writing—
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CA, formerly known as Computer Associates, has its roots in providing mainframe computers used by large institutions like banks.
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Instead of computing on its own, Minitel connected to remote services via uplink, like a 1960s mainframe or a modern Google Chromebook.
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The company hired local artists to bring a sense of hipness to rooms once filled with telecommunications equipment and even kept a retro feel by preserving a room full of ancient mainframe computers.
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The world was very different then; computers were limited to mainframes, and the cost of memory to hold a single song was $1 million.
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The programming language Ms. Sammet helped bring to life is now more than a half-century old, but billions of lines of COBOL code still run on the mainframe computers that underpin the work of corporations and government agencies around the world.
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After being identified as a math prodigy, Greenblat said, she was assigned to sensitive U.S. security calculations on an IBM 360 mainframe computer.
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First Known Use of mainframe
circa 1964
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playDefinition of mainframe for English Language Learners
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: a large and very fast computer that can do many jobs at once
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