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mainframe

A mainframe(mainframe) It is a term hinting at a large-scale computer used for the mission-critical task of the company.
I am called a general computer, a general-purpose computer, a general-purpose large computer, a large-sized general computer, the host computer.
The mainframe is a term hinting at a large-scale computer used for the mission-critical task of the company and, besides, each computer and the series to fall under, is the general term of the architecture group.
There are "general computer" "host computers" various names (the details refer to a name).
The world's first mainframe is considered to be UNIVAC I (the first commercial computer) of 1951.
IBM System/360 of 1964 makes a big hit as a world's first general computer.
Because I became the mainstream of the mainframe of afterward, "a mainframe" and "the general computer" will be used in an about the same meaning.
The correct definition of the mainframe is difficult.
The architecture is different by each maker.
There is operability to the thing which is near to UNIX.
However, I incorporate it, and it is distinguished a minicomputer and an office computer, an open system (UNIX, Linux, Windows) to consist of a general-purpose part and the super computer of the specific use from the computer.
The technology such as the operating system (the OS), multi task, virtual storage, a virtual machine, a cache memory, a divergence prediction, a hard disk, a floppy disk, a database, the online system was born from a mainframe.
I greeted the heyday in 1980's, but was called the "Legacy" (a past negative inheritance) "dinosaur which I fell, and went" by a wave of the downsizing by the rise of open systems such as Windows or the UNIX in 1990's.

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