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・ mail transport agent
・ mail user agent
・ mail users' shell
・ mailbox
・ mailing list
・ main distribution frame
・ main loop
・ main memory
・ main store
・ mainbol
・ mainframe
・ mainframe programmer/analyst
・ mainsail
・ maintainer
・ maintainer script
・ maintenance
・ maisie
・ major delivery
・ major release
・ majordomo


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mainframe
A term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or "main frame" of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine. After the emergence of smaller "minicomputer" designs in the early 1970s, the traditional big iron machines were described as "mainframe computers" and eventually just as mainframes. The term carries the connotation of a machine designed for batch rather than interactive use, though possibly with an interactive time-sharing operating system retrofitted onto it; it is especially used of machines built by IBM, Unisys and the other great dinosaurs surviving from computing's Stone Age.
It has been common wisdom among hackers since the late 1980s that the mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny market for number crunching supercomputers (see Cray)), having been swamped by the recent huge advances in integrated circuit technology and low-cost person


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