The mainframe, the original computing platform, was dethroned by minicomputers, which in turn gave way to personal computers, which are now being pushed aside by hand-held devices and smartphones.

最初的计算平台大型机就被微机给和谐了，接着微机又给个人电脑让路，而现在个人电脑又被手持设备和智能手机扔到一边。

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In in the early 90's I was in my early 20's and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2.

90年代初期，我刚20出头，我使用COBOL、CICS和DB 2为大型计算机编程。

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In particular, the legendary mainframe business was perceived to be in terminal decline, while the firm's hardware (personal computers and the like) were rapidly becoming commodities.

特别是，公司久负盛名的网络主机业务衰减的势头被认为无可挽回，而个人计算机之类的硬件业务又在迅速地日用化(commodity)。

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Despite its high-tech sheen, medicine looks a lot like some of the dinosaur industries that were upended by competition from unexpected sources: autos in the 1970s, for example, or mainframe computers in the 1980s.

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What top executive would bet his company the way Tom Watson did IBM in the early 1950s on mainframe computers or the way Bill Gates bet Microsoft in the mid-1990s on Windows if he knew failure would tempt prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats to destroy him?

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The present generation of factory robots is akin to early mainframe computers in offices, reckons Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of iRobot, an American firm whose products include the Roomba, a robotic vacuum-cleaner, as well as military robots.

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