If only you had stopped at this "first glance" instead of proceeding to a meaningless comparison.Carnegie has manufactured no mainframes or personal computers in its 100 years.
Since there is no mainframe-like shared processor, they can compute at will using common Windows-based applications.
No mainframes or parallel computing techniques have been used.
IBM is no longer a mainframe computer house.
Comeback is too strong a word, but mainframes no longer look that outdated.Until the 1980s mainframes, so called because the processing unit was originally housed in a huge metal frame, ruled supreme in corporate data centres.
And I.B.M. veterans say the predicament that the shift to networked computing poses to Microsoft is familiar to anyone who experienced I.B.M.'s loss of clout years ago as the mainframe was no longer the focal point of computing.
"This makes it so the mainframe is no longer a cult unto itself.
No longer touting their mainframe capabilities, they are selling PCs, network products and systems integration services.
Likewise, IBM's consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice lasted 46 years, even though mainframes were no longer relevant for the last 20 years of that decree.
