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3. Mainframes
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Mainframe Chronology
Mainframe Year
ENIAC 1942
MarkI 1944
BINAC 1949
Whirlwind 1960
UNIVAC 1952
IBM 701 1953
IBM 360 1963
Mainframe Chronology
From the late 1990's mainframe manufacturers
start to leave the mainframe market, thinking
mainframe business to be less profitable. And then
there is virtually only one manufacturer of major
importance left: IBM. And as the single (most
important) manufacturer IBM can dictate its own
prices and sales goes up as well as profits. Not
surprisingly IBM's innovations in new mainframe
architecture leaves the rest far behind.
In due time this is observed by other computer
manufacturers and since 2001 competition gets
stronger again.
Latest (2004)
The 3/4 ton IBM eServer zSeries 890, dubbed the "Baby
Shark" can host up to 32 GBytes of memory.
The four PCIX Crypto Coprocessor (and optional PCI
Crypto Accelerators) on the z890 have seven engine
levels, giving a total of 28 capacity settings overall.
With it's advanced virtualization technology the 64-bit z890
can run several operating systems at the same time
including z/OS, OS/390, z/VM, VM/ESA, VSE/ESA,
TPF and Linux for zSeries and Linux for S/390.
The z890 is upgradeable within z890 family and can also
upgrade to z990 from select z890 configurations.
Configured with the new Enterprise Storage Server Model
750 which handles from 1.1TB up to 4.6TB of data, the
x890 makes an awesome server.
Types of Computers
Mainframes used to be defined by their
size, and they can still fill a room, cost
millions, and support thousands of users.
But now a mainframe can also run on a
laptop and support two users. So today's
mainframes are best defined by their
operating systems: Unix and Linux, and
IBM's z/OS, OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE.
Important Features
Mainframes combine four important features:
Increasingly common in
the mainstream (stock
analysis, automobile
design, movie effects, and
sophisticated artwork)
Used extensively by
government researchers
Supercomputers
1. Input error
2. Errors in instructing a computer
3. Communication gap
4. Improper controls
5. Lack of standards
6. Lack of adequate manufacture support