So you thought that mainframes were a thing of the past? Wrong. They're cheaper to run than PCs, says Cath Everett.
The much debated question of whether the mainframe is dead hit fever pitch in the early 1990s. Downsizing became the new buzzword and big iron was written off as passé. The only way for any progr...
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