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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In 1980, IBM sold refrigerator-sized disks for its mainframe computers that stored about 1.2 gigabytes of data at a cost of $200,000.

在1980年，IBM出售的巨型机用磁盘，尺寸接近于冰箱，只能存储约1.2GB数据，购置成本是20万美元。

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Minicomputers and mainframe computers can work much faster than microcomputers and have many more storage locations in main memory.

小型计算机和主计算机的运行速度要比微型计算机快得多，并且在主存中拥有更多存储单元。

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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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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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