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Wow, you build computers? You mean you build the mainframe and everything?
My computer doesn't work, I think there's something wrong with the mainframe.
My computer doesn't work, I think there's something wrong with the mainframe.
by bomber991 April 19, 2007
Apr 24 Word of the Day
A cultural and aesthetic mind-state that prioritizes making money, even as an “underground” or “radical” creator. The work isn’t made for money, but it’s the money that matters the most.
by Pop Pop Bienstock April 01, 2021
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Mainframe is IBM's registered trademark for their operating systems involving the origin of virtually everything on a normal PC. You name it, it was used for mainframe. They are bulky, huge, everything is mammoth size for mainframes. The movies depict truth in this respect only (about size, for eg Charlie's Angels features a really big mainframe with high security). But mainframes although involved in number crunching like monsters, they dont have sportive GUI like windows as they show in movies
by Mr.T June 03, 2004