Mainframe Computers History

Mainframe Computers

Mainframe computer is a type of digital computers.

Size and Requirement:
Mainframes are large-scale computers. Computer system of this size require very large rooms and other arrangements like cooling etc.

Speed and Memory:
Mainframes are very fast and have very large memory.

Working:
They are used by government and Large organization such as banks, airlines and universities where hundred of users can handle multi processing tasks at a time. This means that main frame is able to do different users at the same time.
For example: It is doing statistical analysis for one user and at the same time printing a report for the second user and financial statement for the third user and soon.

Example:
Examples of Mainframe computers are CYBER 176 and IBM 4341.

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