Sentence examples for by mainframe from inspiring English sources

Yet all of that, they argue, can and will be embraced by the evolving personal computer industry, which has the capacity to expand both upward to take over industrial-strength corporate computing chores once handled by mainframe computers and downward into the market for hand-held devices.

The buzz phrase Microsoft applies to this market is "high-performance network computing," and it is a drive to extend Microsoft's dominant reach beyond the desktop to the heavy-lifting computing done by hub computers running Unix software and even by mainframe computers.

"We give 'em bug-for-bug compatibility," says Mentor General Manager Gregory Long, 44, echoing the "plug-to-plug compatibility" trumpeted by mainframe salesmen of yore.

Accessible Software makes products that manage networks run by mainframes.

I.B.M. plans to use its own Tivoli applications and the Accessible Software programs to link together networks run by mainframes and computer servers.

This new computing model was said to be cheaper and more flexible than the old approach of central processing by mainframes.But with the economic downturn, things may be swinging the other way.

The "next battleground," he said, was to demonstrate that the personal computer could handle the industrial-strength chores now handled by large "server" computers running Unix operating systems and even by mainframes.

In this paper, we consider two classes of applications, the first one consisting of applications that can run on either mainframes or client/server systems, but they are better suited for the latter, and the second one consisting of applications that are more appropriate to continue to be hosted by mainframes.

Because such firms are typically dependent upon local- or wide-area networks, they often lack the disaster-recovery discipline that has been honed by mainframe-centric outfits over the past 10 to 20 years.

Second, even though the number of MIPS may be growing, the share of the hardware and software budget consumed by mainframes is shrinking.

Most people think the mainframe era is past, but in everyday life the credit card processors and the grids through which electricity and telecommunications flow are largely handled by mainframes.