Sentence examples for or mainframe from inspiring English sources
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Those computer workstations found immediate acceptance among engineers, software developers, and scientists who benefited from having dedicated machines rather than sharing more expensive minicomputers or mainframe computer systems.
"The nature of the business has changed because the customer is really paying for the solution, not the PC, minicomputer or mainframe," said Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research.
The procurement, the tender says, is "targeted at provision of the applications and services required to make available the government's large, mission critical high availability services that utilise complex infrastructure with server or mainframe based technology typically hosted in one or more traditional data centre environments".
"They already have 195 customers that are using hundreds of smaller servers tied together as a [less expensive] alternative to Unix or mainframe systems," says Bracelin.
Despite its high-tech sheen, medicine looks a lot like some of the dinosaur industries that were upended by competition from unexpected sources: autos in the 1970s, for example, or mainframe computers in the 1980s.
In fact, Mr. Joyce, the chief financial officer, said in his presentation: "Our growth is not driven by PC's or mainframes.
IBM spotted sooner than many competitors that computing would increasingly become a service produced in vast data centres and delivered over networks, rather than something done on in-house desktops or mainframes.
The tasks of a DBA include placing the database on servers or mainframes, setting up access rights, implementing backup and recovery procedures, and attempting to tune the database to increase performance.
The workhorses for big enterprises, though, are refrigerator-size storage arrays of disks that support one or more mainframes or networks of smaller computers.
More advanced simulations, such as those that emulate weather patterns or the behaviour of macroeconomic systems, are usually performed on powerful workstations or on mainframe computers.
