Why does the IT industry persist in using the redundant term mainframe to describe high-end servers like IBM's new zSeries 990, asks Rod Newing
I am getting fed up with being told that the mainframe isn't dead, when it seems to have pretty much passed away a few years ago. To me, the term mainframe is meaningless. I am told that a frame is...
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