The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and … ...

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The mainframe was supposed to go extinct decades ago, but it's abundant in many habitats. Same goes for the PC, which seems to have adapted for survival better than once thought. Both the ...

In this explainer, we’ll look at the IBM mainframe computer—what it is, how it works, and why it’s still going strong after over 50 years. Setting the stage ...

The industrial-strength mainframe computer, invented decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, is proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence takes center stage ...

Starting in the late 1950s and lasting for several decades, the most common form of computing was based on mainframe computers. The first major blow to the dominance of mainframes came from the ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only woman ...

Although these days the word ‘mainframe’ brings to mind a lumbering behemoth of a system that probably handles things like finances and other business things, but originally the ‘main frame ...

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About a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that need not be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software ...

Mr. Bochicchio, who donated the device to the Smithsonian, claims that it is the very first instance of computer disk memory storage. Information was recorded on the drum statically by advancing the ...

With flexible, on-demand access to vast compute resources, is the era of the mainframe now over? Or do mainframes still have a part to play in the cloud world?