Net 1 operates a mainframe computer, loaded with customer information and tied into every transaction.
It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.
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 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.
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.
IBM's first successful corporate computer was a mainframe called, coincidentally, the 360.
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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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.
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).
Just one generation ago the closest thing to an iPod was a Sony Walkman hooked up to an IBM mainframe computer.
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'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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