The computer also hosts three different microcodes, each providing a unique instruction set. Two are based on computers from Princeton, Toy-A, and Toy-B, used as teaching tools.

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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.

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-fo ...

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 ...

What Keeps Government Agencies on Mainframes? The heyday of mainframes was the 1960s and 1970s, with IBM, UNIVAC and a handful of other companies providing mainframe computers to governments and ...

CIO Journal; Mainframes Find New Life in AI Era Banks, insurance providers and airlines still find uses, including artificial intelligence, for the large computers that have been around for decades ...

Mainframe computers do serve a purpose, but virtualization and cloud computing aren't feasible due to the costs of the equipment and maintenance. It really boils down to the dollars.

The Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM Corp. has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world ...

The new line of mainframe computers pairs what IBM claimed is the industry’s fastest processor with additional resources in a package designed to handle large-scale, continuing tasks such as ...