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The industrial-strength mainframe computer, invented decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, is proving its staying power ...

The company focused on interactive computing, where users could directly interact with the computer, rather than the batch processing method that was prevalent in mainframe computing. In the 1980s ...

A mainframe might use 32 of these chips ... and another one that is uncommitted. A typical CPU will have a shared L3 cache, but with so much L2 cache, IBM went a different direction.

Big Blue's case came to court last year, with the IT giant claiming that Winsopia, a UK subsidiary of LzLabs, bought an IBM mainframe computer and an accompanying license in 2013. The company then ...

Ivan Sutherland demonstrates a program called Sketchpad on a TX-2 mainframe ... 1968 a word processor, an early hypertext system and a collaborative application: three now common computer ...

See rack mounted and mainframe. A computer system is sized for the number ... The use of redundant processors, peripherals and power supplies provide continued operation in the event of hardware ...

If you think of IBM mainframe computers ... core memory that could each hold ten decimal digits and a sign bit. The CPU ran at a stately 27 kHz. Hey, this was 1958, after all.