Mainframe

__Mainframe__

__Definition;__
Mainframes are powerful computers used mainly by large organizations for critical applications, typically data processing such as buisness, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and financial transaction processing. Huge companies need to use a main frame to process all their data very fast. IBM specilizes in making these giant computers.

__**History;**__
Mainframes act as servers that scan and file huge blocks of information. Several manufacturers produced mainframe computers from the late 1950s through the 1970s.

__Comparison__
The group of manufacturers was first known as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs. Also main frames were called mini computers but today they are some of the largest.

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__Links;__
[|www.wikipedia.org] [|www.maiframes.com] [|www.IBMmainframes.org]

__**referances;**__
google, bing, ask.com.