Sentence examples for mainframe in from inspiring English sources

The Russian company bought an I.B.M. mainframe in 2010.

Last year, Primerica, a financial services company, purchased its 19th mainframe in 30 years.

In 1977, the R.N.C. acquired a mainframe computer, while the D.N.C. got its own mainframe in the eighties.

It was one of the first instances of a "wired" courtroom: lawyers were provided computers linked to a mainframe in Texas to share documents.

But by 7 p.m., when Mr. Ramaswamy and colleagues finally had the computers in New Jersey linked back to the mainframe in Britain, thousands of transfers that did need human authorization had piled up.

His old job will be split between Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, who already run the firm's operations.Though there may be little immediate effect, the title-shuffling may one day be seen as the start of an upheaval like the one IBM had to go through when smaller computers dethroned the mainframe in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Mainframes still have a role, and I.B.M. has invested heavily in them — $5 billion in mainframe research in the last decade — so that different kinds of software can run on them and new kinds of processors can plug into them.

Last April, META cut its forecasts for growth in mainframe capacity in half.

The new machines, some customers say, are the most significant change in mainframe design in a decade or more.

Banks were the first to use mainframes in the 1960s; many are still using the original applications because it is risky to swap them out.

But sales of large computers were below estimates because of parts shortages for popular models and, in other cases, customers deferring purchases of mainframes in anticipation of the availability in December of I.B.M.'s powerful new z900 unit.