mainframe
Example Sentences
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She went to her computer and wrote some code, walked a set of punch cards to the mainframe in another building, and waited while it slugged through the calculations.
From Literature
“Software and mainframe performance supported strong results for what many consider a defensive name,” said JPMorgan analyst Brian Essex, who rates the stock a neutral.
From MarketWatch
Cornell was an early adopter of mainframes and his professor mentors were moving from punch cards to mainframe batch processing.
The technology can also help companies access data stuck in old-school IT systems like mainframe computers, he said.
Back then, IBM certainly wouldn’t have hired weird longish-haired geeks like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were working with chintzy little microprocessors that paled in comparison with IBM’s mighty mainframes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
