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How to recognize that a computer is -Main Frame OR Mini Frame?

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Last Update: May 24, 2007 Asked by: S K Hafeez

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December 20, 2006 06:06:47

ashish_setia

Member Since: October 2006 Contribution: 15

RE: How to recognize that a computer is -Main Frame OR...

hey

this is one of the fav. q. in interv.

minicomputers or AS 400 are small computer in which at a time a single job can be processed.

but in main frame these are very large computers and at a time many many job can be processed also in this COBOL programming language is used but in mini computers cobol is not used.

thanks

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ashish setia

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March 08, 2007 01:46:34

Sidd

RE: How to recognize that a computer is -Main Frame OR...

AS/400 computers are not treated as Mini Computers. They are Mid Range computers.

AS/400 has almost all the characteristics of a Mainframe computer. The Major difference being - AS/400 computers are targetted towards Mid sized business where are Mainframes are targetted towards Big sized business.

Now coming to the question of how to identify a computer as Mainframe or Mini ...
A Mainframe computer (server) is basically bulkier in size than an ordinary Mini computer. (If you are at the proximity of the server)

Incase you are away from the server... The emulation software that you use will help you identify if you connecting to a Mainframe or not.

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May 24, 2007 08:59:25

kckinney

Member Since: May 2007 Contribution: 48

RE: How to recognize that a computer is -Main Frame OR...

The question is largely a thing of the past as there are mainframe operating systems currently running on laptops. These laptops are officially licensed by IBM and for all intents and purposes function exactly like their big brothers.In fact since the advent of Hercules any Wintel machine is able to function as a mainframe.Any more the distinction is purely a matter of what operating system is running. z/OS z/VM or z/VSE are usually considered mainframe operating systems.And if mainframe is a thing of the past so too is miniframe.

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