Net 1 operates a mainframe computer, loaded with customer information and tied into every transaction.
It is the mainframe computer that has turned software companies into second-class citizens in Japan.
Just one generation ago the closest thing to an iPod was a Sony Walkman hooked up to an IBM mainframe computer.
It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.
Your smartphone now harnesses the processing power of a multi-million dollar mainframe computer that not so long ago filled an environmentally-controlled room.
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A. before joining First Chicago (now part of JPMorgan Chase ), where he helped the bank move from an old mainframe computer system to modern servers.
G6 mainframe computer depends on the use of silicon chips with copper connections that draw on solid-state physics research done in the firm's laboratory in the 1980s.
Dr. Davis has offered to provide at no cost to the government the conversion of 100, 000 lines of software code on a mainframe computer to demonstrate his program's abilities.
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The company aims to grow its U.S. presence by about 30% a year, largely through its subsidiary Fujitsu Computer Systems, an amalgam of its PC, server, mainframe computer and services businesses formed in 2003.
That dream had grown from small beginnings: from him, a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana, hanging round a huge old mainframe computer on the night of the Fourth of July in 1971, with the sound of fireworks still in his ears.
The core processing systems of insurance companies, airlines and banks, for instance, are built on a mainframe-computer technology that celebrated its 40th anniversary this year.
Therefore Social Business is the fifth shift caused by technology after the ages of the mainframe, departmental computer, PC, and the Internet.
The fifth shift in this case after the mainframe, the departmental computer, the PC, and the Internet I will reiterate is social business .
John Markoff, The New York Times' technology journalist, even compared today's situation to the historic transition from the mainframe to the personal computer.
Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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The hardware progression has been from the mainframe to the personal computer to more powerful clustered servers, with cost and access moving back and forth between large enterprises and corporations to small businesses and individuals.
IBM's first successful corporate computer was a mainframe called, coincidentally, the 360.
NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).
The whole personal computer era can be seen as one giant triumph of dis-integration, as IBM's circuit-boards-to-boxes-to-software mainframe business gave way to the layered computer industry we see today: Intel making the electronics, Dell the boxes and Microsoft the software.
Just as the personal computer freed workers from the tyranny of the mainframe and its persnickety administrators, ADS-B frees pilots from relying on ground controllers to dictate their every maneuver.
Having been designed from the start for use on a personal computer rather than a powerful workstation or even a mainframe, Tsunami and Typhoon use memory extremely efficiently.
The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personal computer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.
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That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.
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