0 a very large, powerful computer with a lot of memory that many people can use at the same time --
1 a large computer that can be used to do several things at once and which is usually used by a number of people --
2 a very large powerful computer that many people can use at the same time: --
Then, through the ever-expanding international telephone network, you can try to gain access into computers worldwide, including mainframe computers.
They range from large mainframe computers through to microcomputers.
Each office has direct links with the mainframe computer installed centrally.
There are mainframe computers, minicomputers and microcomputers used in a wide range of activities.
I expect to take a decision on the agency's mainframe rationalisation project early in the new year.
He will need not necessarily more police but more office staff to work the mainframe computers.
He has nearly 10 years experience in software engineering on projects ranging from satellite ground control and air traffic control to large-scale mainframe databases and latent fingerprint encoding workstations.
For example, the development of mainframe computing toward increasingly larger sizes in the 1940s and 1950s was reversed by the subsequent trajectory of developing microcomputing.
