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Large and powerful computer
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe, maxicomputer, or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications
Mainframe_computer
Large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952
IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the computer market with the 7000 series
IBM_mainframe
Electronic game with user interface and visual feedback
video-like output from large, room-sized mainframe computers. The first consumer video game was the arcade video game Computer Space in 1971, which took inspiration
Video_game
Early video games on mainframe computers
Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by businesses and academic institutions for large-scale processes. Before personal computers, first termed
Early_mainframe_games
computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff
History_of_personal_computers
tape/card readers, like mainframes and unlike most personal computers, but require less space and electrical power than a typical mainframe. This term has fallen
Classes_of_computers
Mainframe computer system
distributed worldwide, running on nearly a dozen different networked mainframe computers. Many modern concepts in multi-user computing were first developed
PLATO_(computer_system)
Mid-1960s–late-1980s class of smaller computers
general-purpose computer mostly developed from the mid-1960s, built significantly smaller and sold at a much lower price than mainframe computers. Minicomputers
Minicomputer
Class of computer systems that fall in between mainframes and minicomputers
Midrange computers, or midrange systems, were a class of computer systems that fell in between mainframe computers and microcomputers.[failed verification]
Midrange_computer
Person who oversees the running of computer systems
New Jersey, and Florida. The former role of a computer operator was to work with mainframe computers which required a great deal of management day-to-day
Computer_operator
Set of information technology components that are the foundation of an IT service
services." IT infrastructure hardware includes mainframe computers, end-user devices like personal computers (PCs), laptops and tablets, and networking hardware
IT_infrastructure
Programmable machine that processes data
Hybrid computer Harvard architecture Von Neumann architecture Complex instruction set computer Reduced instruction set computer Supercomputer Mainframe computer
Computer
some more obscure computer sizes. There are different sizes like minicomputers, microcomputers, mainframe computers and super computers. These are mainly
List of computer size categories
List_of_computer_size_categories
Physical components of a computer
speakers. Power and data connections vary between phones. A mainframe computer is a much larger computer that typically fills a room and may cost many hundreds
Computer_hardware
Type of computer system
Since the rise of the personal computer in the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM mainframe-compatible systems which are compatible
PC-based IBM mainframe-compatible systems
PC-based_IBM_mainframe-compatible_systems
Canadian animation studio
Mainframe Studios to return to their "Mainframe Entertainment" name roots. The company is best known for the production of the first fully computer-animated
Mainframe_Studios
circuit board. Large mainframe computers used ICs to increase storage and processing abilities. The 1965 IBM System/360 mainframe computer family are sometimes
History of computing hardware (1960s–present)
History_of_computing_hardware_(1960s–present)
constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers, servers
List of computer system manufacturers
List_of_computer_system_manufacturers
US-based IT company
the CICS mainframe marketplace. Corry Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the United States at age 20, studying computer science at
UNICOM_Global
Group of mainframe computer competitors by IBM
The BUNCH was the nickname for the group of mainframe computer competitors of IBM in the 1970s. The name is derived from the names of the five companies:
BUNCH
Transmission control character
The EOT character is used in legacy communications protocols by mainframe computer manufacturers such as IBM, Burroughs Corporation, and the BUNCH. Terminal
End-of-Transmission_character
in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by
History_of_video_games
Topics referred to by the same term
mainframe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A mainframe computer is a type of large data processing system. Mainframe may also refer to: Mainframe Studios
Mainframe_(disambiguation)
Computers designed or built in Britain include: Acorn Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn
List_of_British_computers
MU-TH-R 182 model 2.1 terabyte AI Mainframe/"Mother" (more commonly seen now as "MU/TH/UR 6000"), the onboard computer on the commercial spacecraft Nostromo
List_of_fictional_computers
Computer designed to be used at a fixed location
connect with a mainframe computer but that did not stop owners from using its built-in computational abilities as a stand-alone desktop computer. The HP 9800
Desktop_computer
Computer connected to a network
that provides services to smaller or less capable devices, such as a mainframe computer serving teletype terminals or video terminals. Other examples of this
Host_(network)
1971 video game
wrote the game in the BASIC programming language for the SDS Sigma 7 mainframe computer with the goal of creating a game like Spacewar! (1962) that could
Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)
evolution across a long period. Years listed are those in which early mainframe games and others are believed to have originally appeared. Often these
List of text-based computer games
List_of_text-based_computer_games
Soviet mainframe computer
Strela computer (Russian: ЭВМ Стрела, lit. 'Arrow') was the first mainframe vacuum-tube computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union, beginning
Strela_computer
Small computer with a CPU made out of a microprocessor
Technology 6502, Zilog Z80, and Intel 8088. The predecessors to these computers, mainframes and minicomputers, were comparatively much larger and more expensive
Microcomputer
Video game that uses text characters
with mainframe computers as a form of input, where the output was printed on paper. With that, notable titles were developed for those computers using
Text-based_game
Piece of software accessing a server service
remote computers via a network. These computer terminals were clients of the time-sharing mainframe computer. In one classification, client computers and
Client_(computing)
Italian electronics manufacturer
commune of Ivrea, Italy. Olivetti was a pioneer in computer development, starting with the mainframe systems in the 1950s, and continuing into the 1990s
Olivetti_computers
American software company (1976–2018)
The main key to Computer Associates' fast growth was the acquisition of many lesser-sized software companies in the IBM mainframe industry segment.
Computer_Associates
Computing resource shared by concurrent users
of their mainframe computers starting with the IBM 704 and then the IBM 709 product line IBM 7090 and IBM 7094. IBM loaned those mainframes at no cost
Time-sharing
Video game genre
attempted to implement systems like Dungeons & Dragons on university mainframe computers. While initially niche, RPGs would soon become mainstream on consoles
Role-playing_video_game
Text-based strategy game
popularity with the students, it was deleted from the school district's mainframe computer at the end of the school semester. Rawitsch recreated the game in
The Oregon Trail (1971 video game)
The_Oregon_Trail_(1971_video_game)
American mainframe and supercomputer firm (1957–1999)
Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer company that in the 1960s was one of the nine major U.S. computer companies, a group which included
Control_Data_Corporation
Chilean 1971–73 economic management project
and a national network of telex machines that linked to a single mainframe computer. Project Cybersyn, based on a viable system model (VSM) theory approach
Project_Cybersyn
Computer input/output device for users
to minicomputers or mainframe computers and often had a green or amber screen. Typically terminals communicate with the computer via a serial port via
Computer_terminal
Former US computer research consortium
merging in the late 1980s. Many of the early shareholder companies were mainframe computer companies under stress in the 1980s. Over the years, MCC's membership
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
Microelectronics_and_Computer_Technology_Corporation
Hacker jargon for computerised blinking lights
In computer jargon, blinkenlights are diagnostic lights on front panels of old mainframe computers. More recently the term applies to status lights of
Blinkenlights
Computer intended for use by an individual person
minicomputers and mainframes, time-sharing by many people at the same time is not used with personal computers. The term "home computer" has also been used
Personal_computer
Computer series
TRANSAC (Transistor Automatic Computer) Model S-1000 was released as a scientific computer. The TRANSAC S-2000 mainframe computer system was first produced
Philco_computers
Data storage technology
expensive disks") connected to mainframe computers. RAID has been deployed not only in mainframe computers, but in personal computers, supercomputers, file servers
RAID
Operating system
PDP-10 mainframe computers, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from the mid-1960s up until 1991; the mainframe computer it ran
WAITS
Process to create executable computer programs
COBOL is still prevalent in corporate data centers often on large mainframe computers, Fortran in engineering applications, scripting languages in Web
Computer_programming
American computer scientist
implementations of the programming language Lisp for the IBM 704 mainframe computer. It was Russell who realized that the concept of universal functions
Steve Russell (computer scientist)
Steve_Russell_(computer_scientist)
Terminal emulator
emulator that duplicates the functions of an IBM 3270 mainframe computer terminal on a computer, usually a PC or similar microcomputer. As the original
3270_emulator
Guidance and navigation computer used in Apollo spacecraft
systems were secondary, as NASA conducted primary navigation with mainframe computers in Houston. In the earlier Project Gemini program, the astronauts
Apollo_Guidance_Computer
American electrical engineer (1917–2020)
colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 mainframe computer in 1959. He cited as his greatest contribution the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register
Arnold_Spielberg
American multinational technology company
System/370 in 1970. Together the 360 and 370 made the IBM mainframe the dominant mainframe computer and the dominant computing platform in the industry throughout
IBM
History of computer programming using punch cards
account. A mainframe computer could cost millions of dollars and usage was measured in seconds per job.[citation needed] Smaller computers like the IBM
Computer programming in the punched card era
Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era
1971 video game
on other minicomputer and mainframe computers of the time, later migrating to early microcomputer systems. Early computer scientist Alan Kay noted in
Computer_Space
Central computer component that executes instructions
popular that it dominated the mainframe computer market for decades and left a legacy that is continued by similar modern computers like the IBM zSeries. In
Central_processing_unit
is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. chipset A group of integrated circuits, or chips
Glossary of computer hardware terms
Glossary_of_computer_hardware_terms
Historical account
of mainframe computers. IBM mainframes run operating systems supplied by IBM and by third parties. The operating systems on early IBM mainframes have
History of IBM mainframe operating systems
History_of_IBM_mainframe_operating_systems
Service bureau providing computer services
systems. These allowed the services of a single large and expensive mainframe computer to be divided up and sold as a fungible commodity. Development of
Computer_bureau
Data input device
detected sequentially by scanning the X lines. The first computer keyboards were for mainframe computer data terminals and used discrete electronic parts. The
Computer_keyboard
Fictional supercomputer by Isaac Asimov
powerful computer appearing in over a dozen science fiction stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov's depiction of Multivac, a mainframe computer accessible
Multivac
Mainframe computer operating system
The Edinburgh Multi-Access System (EMAS) was a mainframe computer operating system at the University of Edinburgh. The system went online in 1971. EMAS
Edinburgh Multiple Access System
Edinburgh_Multiple_Access_System
Base memory unit handled by a computer
multiple of 6-bits, with the 36-bit word being especially common on mainframe computers. The introduction of ASCII led to the move to systems with word lengths
Word_(computer_architecture)
1976 video game
adventure game, released in 1976 by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player
Colossal_Cave_Adventure
American computer company
moved into programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment
Burroughs_Corporation
Club focused on the use of a particular technology
technology, usually (but not always) computer-related. Users' groups started in the early days of mainframe computers, as a way to share sometimes hard-won
Users'_group
Operating system
persistent, pure capability-based operating system for the IBM S/370 mainframe computers. It allows emulating the environments of VM, MVS, and Portable Operating
KeyKOS
Software company
eponymously named product, SyncSort, was the dominant sort program for IBM mainframe computers during much of the 1970s and 1980s. Precisely is headquartered in
Precisely_(company)
American mainframe computer manufacturer
an information technology company which specialized in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products, some of which were regarded as supercomputers competing
Amdahl_Corporation
2021 64-bit mainframe microprocessor by IBM
Telum is a microprocessor made by IBM for the IBM z16 series mainframe computers. The processor was announced at the Hot Chips 2021 conference on 23 August
IBM_Telum
Graphics created using computers
an IBM 7090 mainframe computer. Also at BTL, Ken Knowlton, Frank Sinden, Ruth A. Weiss and Michael Noll started working in the computer graphics field
Computer_graphics
36-bit computer by Digital (1966–1983)
Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured from 1966, delivered from December 1967, and discontinued
PDP-10
Japanese animated short series
attendant, whose artificial intelligence is linked to the train's mainframe computer. Minami Minase (水無瀬 ミナミ, Minase Minami) Voiced by: Haruka Sasaki (short
Milky Subway: The Galactic Limited Express
Milky_Subway:_The_Galactic_Limited_Express
Fictional character in The Matrix
Morpheus, as a hovercraft captain, possesses access codes to the Zion mainframe computer, the surviving members of the ship's crew are about to unplug Morpheus
Morpheus_(The_Matrix)
Mainframe computer, 1960s
second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum-tube mainframe computer that was designed for "large-scale scientific and technological applications"
IBM_7090
British computer company (1968-2002)
Series range of mainframe computers. In later years, ICL diversified its product line but the bulk of its profits always came from its mainframe customers.
International Computers Limited
International_Computers_Limited
Character from the G.I. Joe franchise
the army to get his degree from MIT on the G.I. Bill. Mainframe then did a stint developing computer software in Silicon Valley, making big bucks and fighting
Mainframe_(G.I._Joe)
High-end single-user computer
term workstation has been used loosely to refer to everything from a mainframe computer terminal to a PC connected to a network, but most commonly refers
Workstation
Regular user of a product
1950s (where end users did not interact with the mainframe; computer experts programmed and ran the mainframe) to one in the 2010s where the end user collaborates
End_user
Family of mainframe computer operating systems developed by NEC for the Japanese market
Advanced Comprehensive Operating System (ACOS) is a family of mainframe computer operating systems developed by NEC for the Japanese market. It consists
Advanced Comprehensive Operating System
Advanced_Comprehensive_Operating_System
1951 British computer
Computers and Tabulators (ICT) and others to form International Computers Limited (ICL) in 1968. In the 1980s, there were still ICL 2900 mainframes running
LEO_(computer)
IBM's 64-bit instruction set architecture implemented by its mainframe computers
IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture, implemented by its mainframe computers. IBM introduced its first z/Architecture-based
Z/Architecture
1970 mainframe computer
Honeywell 6000 series computers were a further development (using integrated circuits) of General Electric's 600-series mainframes manufactured by Honeywell
Honeywell_6000_series
American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur
10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies
Gene_Amdahl
Operating system from General Electric
oriented toward the 36-bit GE-600 series and Honeywell 6000 series mainframe computers. The original version of GCOS was developed by General Electric beginning
General Comprehensive Operating System
General_Comprehensive_Operating_System
Open Mainframe Project is a Linux Foundation project to encourage use of Linux-based operating systems and open-source software on mainframe computers. The
Open_Mainframe_Project
Mainframe computers manufactured from 1959 to 1975
Minsk was a family of mainframe computers that were developed in the Byelorussian SSR and manufactured at the Ordzhonikidze Computer Plant (Минский завод
Minsk_family_of_computers
American pioneer computer engineer
first commercial scientific computer and its first mass-produced mainframe computer. The IBM 701 started the line of IBM 700/7000 series which were responsible
Jerrier_A._Haddad
Computer architecture bit width
address buses, or data buses of that size. 36-bit computers were popular in the early mainframe computer era from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Starting
36-bit_computing
High-performance input/output architecture
is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past, channels were generally implemented
Channel_I/O
Operating system
discontinued operating system from Sperry Univac for its 90/60 and 90/70 computer systems. The system was first announced in November 1971 for Univac's 9700
OS/7
Processor with instructions capable of multi-step operations
[dubious – discuss] Examples of CISC architectures include complex mainframe computers to simplistic microcontrollers where memory load and store operations
Complex instruction set computer
Complex_instruction_set_computer
Hardware designed to perform exactly like or with another vendor's product
manufacturers (PCMs). Later plug-compatible mainframe (also PCM) referred to IBM-compatible mainframe computers. PCM can also mean plug-compatible machine
Plug_compatibility
Series of Soviet-made mainframe computers
(Russian: Урал) is a series of mainframe computers built in the former Soviet Union. The Ural was developed at the Electronic Computer Producing Manufacturer
Ural_(computer)
Computer bugs related to the year 2000
my fingertips." The problem started because on both mainframe computers and later personal computers, memory was expensive, from as low as $10 per kilobyte
Year_2000_problem
Small mainframe computer series (1960s)
The GE-200 series was a family of small mainframe computers of the 1960s, built by General Electric (GE). GE marketing called the line Compatibles/200
GE-200_series
Video game for a personal computer
has dominated the computer industry since. Mainframe and minicomputer games are a precursor to personal computer games. Home computer games became popular
PC_game
1995 American TV series or program
gets stuck in his computer mainframe project on June 8, 1995. The two Bonner siblings (Samantha and Nicholas) reactivate the computer on September 17,
Reality Check (American TV series)
Reality_Check_(American_TV_series)
Software product released in 1969
software product originally developed by Applied Data Research for IBM mainframe computers. It was designed to supplant physical punched card decks as a way
The Librarian (version control system)
The_Librarian_(version_control_system)
Procedure for sending requests to mainframe computers
sending requests for non-interactive data processing tasks (jobs) to mainframe computers from remote workstations, and by extension the process of receiving
Remote_job_entry
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English
Variant spelling of English Emerson, EMMERSON means "son of Emery."
Female
African
paradise.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Limitless, Indestructible, Imperishable, Endless, Boundless, Incomparable Lord, Unique
Boy/Male
African, American, British, English, French
Riverbank; Derived from Place-name Deverel
Male
English
 Short form of English Gilbert, GIL means "pledge-bright" and other names beginning with Gil-. Compare with other forms of Gil.
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Plant.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Lord Shiva
Boy/Male
Muslim
Polite, Courteous
Boy/Male
Indian, Telugu
Sage
Boy/Male
Norse
Stranger.
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n.
A computer.
v. t.
To frame wrongly.
n.
One who computes.
a.
A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.