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In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, they purchased tens of thousands of mainframe computers, even though I.B.M. had initially thought it might be able to sell only twenty-five.
But do all game fans truly need the raw, hulking power of a mainframe computer sitting beside their TV screens?
Today, it's two pounds, 100 gigabytes and it has the power of a mainframe.
Microscopic observations during subsequent heating of the latter spherulites indicated that they were composed of a mainframe of the banded texture and interstitial crystallites with different orientation.
At a price of $120,000, the PDP-1 sold for a fraction of the cost of mainframe computers, albeit with vastly more limited capabilities.
And in Asia, where there is less of a legacy of mainframe systems to be superseded, client-server business systems are the only way to go".
And so, you know, there's a lot of moving parts at IBM. Outside of mainframe hardware, things were pretty much like at other places.
Once IBM drove all the other hardware companies out of the mainframe business, they set about consolidating the software business too.
My love of the complexity of all things surrounding the mainframe led me to my first job as an IBM MVS System Programmer, the rough equivalent of a system administrator.
The second inquiry, opened on the European Commission's own initiative, concerns claims of discriminatory behavior toward competing suppliers of mainframe maintenance services.
