Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ten years ago I used to be a bit of a mainframe guru. I wrote a column on the subject and I spent a lot of time talking to all the ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

(1) Using a desktop computer as a terminal to a mainframe. See 3270 emulator. (2) An earlier expression that referred to all sizes of computers from small to large. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...

The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

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A non-IBM mainframe that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. In the late 1960s, RCA's computer division produced the Spectra 70, the first line of machines compatible with IBM's ...

Greenstein, Shane, and James B. Wade. "The Product Life Cycle in the Commercial Mainframe Computer Market, 1968-1982." RAND Journal of Economics 29, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 772–789.