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IBM Archives: Exhibits: IBM Mainframes: IBM Mainframes ... The IBM Dictionary Of Computing defines "mainframe" as "a large computer, in particular one to which other computers can be connected so that they can share facilities the mainframe provides (for example, a System/370 computing system to which personal computers...
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Mainframe computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mainframes (often colloquially referred to as Big Iron ) are computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications, typically bulk data processing such as census, industry and cons...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer
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Officially, as far as IBM is concerned, MIPS, short for Millions of Instructions Per Second, has been a forbidden acronym. IBMers may talk to each other about mainframe MIPS, and they might even use the word with customers, but for years it's all done under conditions that allow deniability.
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Isham Research is an IBM industry analyst specialising in the IBM mainframe platforms such as zSeries, the z9 BC & EC, z890, etc.
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One of the most misused terms in IT has to be MIPS. It's supposed to stand for "millions of instructions per second," but many alternate meanings ... Maximize your IT investment with monthly information from THE source...IBM Systems Magazine EXTRA & Marketplace eNewsletters. SUBSCRIBE NOW. View past Mainframe EXTRAs here...
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The only actual mainframe I knew that was doing real work running Windows was Nasdaq's Windows-NT-running-on-Tandem-MIPS-CPUs. More trivia: IIRC, that MIPS mainframe had some software they sold using under the sqlserver brand name so they could claim that sqlserver scales like oracle. ... IBM launches Linux 'baby' mainframe...
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By some estimates, since this past February when the z10 was introduced, Linux has accounted for more than half the total mainframe MIPS IBM has sold since the z10 was introduced last February. ... Home > IT Blogs > Mainframe Propeller Head > More than half the mainframe MIPS IBM sells are Linux?
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IDG News Service - IBM is embarking on a five-year campaign to promote mainframe computers by making the systems easier to configure and operate. It also plans to promote them as an alternative ... Most of these users will continue to increase their installed MIPS at a compound annual growth rate of 15% to 20% through 2009,
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A new entry-level mainframe makes big iron more affordable, but software fees could dampen interest, analysts say. ... In fact, until the release of the z800 OE1 model last week, the smallest upgrade option available for small mainframe users was IBM's 60 MIPS Multiprise mainframe.
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