Sentence examples for like the mainframe from inspiring English sources

Like the mainframe, which was said to be dead decades ago but has remained a meaningful business, the PC will almost certainly cheat death.

"LEDs are in their infancy in technology, like the mainframe computer in the 1960s, so these are only going to get more and more efficient".

Web browsers (like the mainframe terminals before them) are "thin" clients in comparison to PCs which are "thick" clients.

Just like the mainframe and minicomputer makers, who faced a threat that ultimately swamped them when the PC came on the scene, the existing gear companies are staring straight into the abyss.

He replied that he feared the automobile industry is not like the mainframe-computing industry in the nineteen-seventies, ripe to be challenged by Steve Jobs-like inventors working in their garages.

The energy production of tomorrow will take a quantum leap forward - like the mainframes of yester year have turned into the iPhones of today.

In the 1980s, another group of Xerox scientists proposed an even more radical idea: the personal computer was destined, like its predecessor the mainframe computer, for obsolescence.

In the tradition of GG, they make really fast and fuzzy and obnoxious songs with titles like "Pissing on the Mainframe" and "Passing Out in Front of Children" that are actually about the things in the title.

Sort of like the smartphone versus the mainframe".

The music video amounts to a montage of stock footage of public spaces and people on cellphones, overlaid with computer interfaces and streams of the numbers 1 and 0. With all its spiked, hack-the-mainframe paranoia, it looks like something that could have been packaged as a bonus feature on a first-run DVD of Hackers or The Matrix.

This sounds like the old mainframe approach with "dumb terminals".