What are the characteristics of a mainframe?

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What are the characteristics of a mainframe?

2007-06-22 19:00:43 · 2 answers · asked by Yolanda G 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software

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The main characteristic is supporting hundreds of simultaneous clients. In fact it's just a huge computer.

You can take a look at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/about/ for much more details about IBM mainframes.

2007-06-22 19:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by juliepelletier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

mainframes are usually big, they do alot of time sharing because of multiple I/O terminals

2007-06-22 19:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by oldguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋