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Tuesday 4 October 2011

(Lecture 17) Mainframe Computers

A mainframe is a large computer in term of price, power and speed.  It consists of multiple processors.  It is specially designed to perform multiple intensive tasks for multiple users simultaneously.  It was introduced in 1970s.  A typical mainframe computer can execute 16 million instructions per second.  It is used in large organizations, such as Banks, Universities and Multinational companies etc.

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