mainframe
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“It was a shot to the heart and the chest and the mainframe with Luka,” James told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
In February, IBM stock posted its worst decline in 25 years—tumbling sharply on news that Anthropic had released AI tools that could help with modernizing Cobol, a programming language mainly run on IBM mainframe computers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
“The idea of shifting off of mainframe is not a new concept,” Daryanani concluded.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
In his view, although alternatives have been available for decades, clients are sticking with mainframe for a host of reasons: reliability and speed advantages, better cost efficiency at scale, and security such as quantum-safe encryption.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Once a program was ready, you walked over to whatever mainframe computer you had access to and gave the stack of cards to an operator.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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