Saturday, February 24, 2007

 

What is a mainframe computer?

A mainframe computer is a large computer that is powerful enough to work much faster than ordinary desktop computers / PCs.

The computer age started in the mid 1950s with the mainframe computers before graduating to mini-computers and then to the personal computers.

Many aspects of mainframe computers are quite different from those used in our PCs. Their operating systems, databases and storage & computing mechanims are quite different from those of personal computers.

IBM is one of the prominent companies that manufactures mainframes.

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