mainframes in English

noun
1
a large high-speed computer, especially one supporting numerous workstations or peripherals.
IBM has tried to keep customers interested by adding Linux support to its mainframe boxes.
2
the central processing unit and primary memory of a computer.
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1. In 1995, the company entered corporate training in mainframes.

2. The boxes are clearly aimed at data intensive applications downsizing from mainframes.

3. To add to customers' problems, he said, old mainframes can't run new software with additional functionality.

4. Most of the original Bitnet connections linked IBM mainframes in university data centers

5. Mainframes, desktop and laptop Computers, tablets, and smartphones are some of the different types of Computers

6. Processors used in personal computers, mainframes, and supercomputers have instruction sizes between 8 and 64 bits.

7. OpenVision's technology is aimed at managing large geographically dispersed networks of heterogeneous computers with controls similar to those found on mainframes.

8. Some mainframes designed in the 1960s, such as the Burroughs B5000 and its successors, used memory segmentation to perform index-bounds checking in hardware.

9. IBM first promoted the term "personal computer" to differentiate themselves from other microcomputers, often called "home computers", and also IBM's own mainframes and minicomputers.

10. It was ported to many other platforms, such as mainframes (MVS), minicomputers (VMS), workstations (UNIX), OS/2, the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST and the Sinclair QL.

11. Cobol is the result of US Department of Defense work in the late 1950s to develop a common business language suitable for different kinds of mainframes

12. The coronavirus pandemic is putting a strain on 40-year-old mainframes running Cobol, and New Jersey, Kansas, and Connecticut all need urgent help from programmers.