Crossword-Solution: MAINFRAMES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| "Big iron," in hacker slang | 1 answer |
| Data center workhorses | 1 answer |
| IBM inventory | 1 answer |
| Large computers | 1 answer |
| Large, powerful computers | 1 answer |
| Some servers | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MAINFRAMES (5)
Usenet software has also been ported to a number of platforms, from the Amiga and IBM PCs all the way to minicomputers and mainframes.
Used generally of {number-crunching} supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes.
After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes.
For example, in the context of IBM mainframes at large universities and research institutions, BITnet (The "Because It's Time" Network) emerged.
Computers, mainframes, mini computers, or millions of personal computers - they do in fact control and monitor our every activity, for better or for worse.
Quotes with MAINFRAMES (2)
It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.
For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs.
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1998–2023).