mainframe

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When the mainframe was the only game in town we thought we had this problem licked.

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  1. noun A large powerful computer, often serving many connected terminals and usually used by large complex organizations.

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  • We're talking about complete computing elements wired up via a self-contained, high speed network with a combined computing power that far exceeds anything currently identified as a mainframe. —  doggdot.us
  • "There's a joke about how we had cloud computing since the 1960s and it was called the mainframe," O'Brien said. —  CRM Buyer
  • When the mainframe was the only game in town we thought we had this problem licked. —  SearchDataCenter: IT infrastructure news
  • Basically Tivo for the mainframe, the company's Intellinx zWatch for IBM System z lets customers take a snapshot of all business transactions performed on the mainframe, generate a detailed audit trail and detect suspicious activity Porell said. —  Netflash
  • But the mainframe is the world I mostly live in, and I've been assured by Poughkeepsie that "System z" is the real name; the latter usage is just shorthand. —  freshnews.org - most clicked links
 

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