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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It has sponsored-and ultimately benefited from-a continuous series of innovations, from the mainframe to the personal computer, services and cloud computing.

它赞助了——并最终从中得益——一系列持续性的发明，从大型计算机到个人电脑、服务与计算。

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He stressed the important of a shift from mainframe to personal health care.

他强调由主体要求向个人健康护理转变的重要。

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Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.

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John Markoff, The New York Times' technology journalist, even compared today's situation to the historic transition from the mainframe to the personal computer.

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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.

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