Sentence examples for on the mainframe from inspiring English sources
Other users submitted "batch jobs" to be run one at a time on the mainframe.
On the mainframe you couldn't scroll.
Moreover, he said, "You could do some nifty additional things that didn't exist on the mainframe.
The A.T.M. customer data is held on the mainframe, which also handles banking transactions.
In short, it allowed several people to access the same program running on the mainframe at the same time.
In college, we had to sign up for time on the mainframe computer to do some of our homework.
Even IBM's supposedly moribund mainframe hardware business grew 7% to just over $3 billion, thanks to Linux, which shipped on 20% of the mainframe horsepower IBM delivered last year.
It [previously] ran on a mainframe, which was a pain to have to log in to, and a lot of people just logged on to the mainframe to look up people's phone numbers.
"I think this case could in the end have a significant effect on the lower end of the mainframe market," said Jeff Gould, the chief executive and research director of Peerstone Research, an industry consultant in San Francisco.
There were a thousand terminals connected to the mainframe, half on campus and the other half at universities around the world.
As Web sites increasingly tie into all this vitality, why not link the software that supports those sites with the data on the mainframes?
