I.B.M. asserts that the mainframe is often the lowest-cost technology when running many different programs because fewer people are needed to maintain a mainframe, and it consumes less power, than a cluster of many smaller machines.
When mainframe computers arrived and television was what kids liked, the mind was like a mainframe and television was the engine of our idiocy.
"The Matrix" proposes that the human mind is just a mainframe, and almost as complicated as Windows 2000.
Also included in the illustration is a computer mainframe and disc, and a fetus plugged into the mainframe is pictured at the bottom.
Pritt's Bellevue, Wash.-based Attachmate Corp. sells a software translation service between an old technology, the computer mainframe, and a new one, the desktop computer.
And just like a mainframe or a PC, this mother of all machines needs an operating system, a platform on which all these services can be developed.
"We've smashed together a mainframe cabinet and a blade cabinet and connected them through this secure link".
I.B.M. met the challenge, moved beyond the mainframe and built a business increasingly based on software and services.
Rather, he predicted, wrongly, that in the future everyone would have a relatively simple and inexpensive computer terminal in the home linked to a shared, centralized mainframe and use it as an electronic portal to the worlds of commerce and news and entertainment media.
Link says the store will open with 1500-1800 packages for products with such disparate use cases as an IBM mainframe, a DEC Alpha, Unix and Solaris and New Relic.
