noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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large
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Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems.
■ NOUN
application
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This includes customers downsizing their mainframe applications to a distributed Unix or client-server environment.
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Midland Bank, another Micro Control user, is only now migrating away from mainframe applications .
business
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Hitachi asks AT&T to take its mainframe business as well.
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It is hoped too, that 30% to 40% growth in personal computer sales seen for 1993 will offset waning mainframe business .
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But the company's mainframe business is quite the opposite.
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The mainframe business has been affected, too, but only indirectly ... so far.
computer
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Fifty years later Fujitsu was well established as a supplier to Siemens of mainframe computers .
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The same is known to be true of the reel-to-reel tapes favoured by the older mainframe computers .
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Water cooling eliminates the problem in mainframe computers , but smaller machinery must find an alternative.
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There are high speed links direct from the School of Geography to the University's mainframe computers .
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At the heart of that strategy was the replacement of the company's mainframe computers with networks of high-powered desktop workstations.
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A mainframe computer can control the computing applications of a whole company or university.
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A minicomputer can often carry out many of the tasks of a mainframe computer but is smaller and needs less staff.
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Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing, a desktop computer now suffices.
software
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Unicenter is an open systems equivalent to its current mainframe software for data centre management.
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Though it has made its name as a mainframe software house, Compuware is keen to broaden its horizons.
system
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Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit.
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Where computer systems have been investigated they have been large mainframe systems.
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The company was established in 1974, originally as a software house developing applications for mainframe systems .
user
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SmartStream is intended to provide a means for mainframe users to move to client/server arrangements without abandoning their existing systems.
■ VERB
use
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Bureaux and micros are not suitable, so a choice must be made between using an in-house mainframe and buying a mini.
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Students undertake laboratory and design office work, use state-of-the-art mainframe and microcomputers and attend a surveying field course.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If a company has an in-house mainframe , there may well be attractions in using it.
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In the SmartStream scheme, mainframes can be retained as file servers while cheaper Unix boxes assume its traditional tasks.
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Midland Bank, another Micro Control user, is only now migrating away from mainframe applications.
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Students undertake laboratory and design office work, use state-of-the-art mainframe and microcomputers and attend a surveying field course.
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The mainframe will soon be history, the AS/400 is still worth saving, but time is desperately short.
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The company claims it costs a third to a half less than non-fault-tolerant storage systems used in mainframe environments.
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They have been so successful that the strongest machines available are now about as good as the best mainframes of five years ago.
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Water cooling eliminates the problem in mainframe computers, but smaller machinery must find an alternative.