mainframe
Example Sentences
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He had already spent nearly two decades as a tech pioneer while the industry advanced from giant mainframes fed by index cards to desktop PCs.
From Washington Post
IBM, the king of mainframe computers, didn’t just miss the shift to personal computers; it initially fought it.
From Washington Post
Pulling this off the internet and onto secured mainframes would make this information safer.
From Washington Post
Many of those systems “are old mainframe systems that are generally reliable, but they are out of date,” he said.
From Seattle Times
“So much of their systems are old mainframe systems that are generally reliable but they are out of date,” he said.
From Seattle Times
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