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A Mainframe: The Biggest PC Peripheral Available.
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A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available.
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The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a Workstation, the unit sales make it a Mainframe.
-- on the NeXT...
0186 Do you own a modem? 0187 ... a terminal? 0188 .
.. a toy computer? 0189 ... a personal computer? 0190 ....
plug-and-pray adj.,vi. Parody of the techspeak term `plug-and-play'
describing a PC peripheral card which is claimed to have no need for hardware configuration via DIP switches, and which should be work as soon as it is inserted in the PC....
Mainframe? ..We don't need no steenking mainframe!
JOYSTICK: Peripheral used by consulting adults.
download: vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp.
a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
mainframe n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine.
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....
And the biggest question is - where is the information?
IBM: Industry's Biggest Mistake