mainframe

[ UK /mˈe‍ɪnfɹe‍ɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈmeɪnˌfɹeɪm/ ]

NOUN

a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room
(computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached

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It has a steel-coated mainframe and ceramic swingarm plus a host of exotic features. The Sun
Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
In those days, mainframe computers were coming into usage and electronic calculators were also just appearing.
By designing and developing the mainframe and aluminum bar clamp, the clamping leaf spring can be adjusted to suit the different selection of the material or the transformation of angle.
I remember playing this one on a dumb DEC terminal connected to a mainframe somewhere; I just can't remember what it was called.
All of a sudden, IBM PCs exchanged information easier with typical minicomputer systems than they did with mainframe computers.
On its higher end Unix and mainframe systems, IBM uses in-house technology for these types of tasks.
IBM mainframe computers proved to have more than four-year lives, but not by much.
Digital priced the new line at less than half the cost of comparable mainframes.
The newspaper discovered that numerous UK mainframe support staff lost their jobs as a result of these actions and that IBM offshored the work to South Africa.