For what seems like forever, the terms "virtual machine" and "mainframe" have been synonymous.. The ability to carve up an IBM mainframe into distinctly separate systems probably gave birth to the ...

The idea of early computer users having an entire processor to themselves was just a fantasy. The first computer networks had all the processing power in a central mainframe, or server, to which ...

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For decades, IBM mainframes were relatively wimpy processors with lots of I/O channels that could support dozens of disks, printers, terminals and comm links. The new Mac Pro is hardly wimpy, but its ...

A Microsoft Surface Duo tied to an Azure back end running a cloud desktop solution like Workspot could be the start of something big. Editor’s note: Microsoft is a client of the author. Last week, I ...

Phil Rhodes believes that we're at the precipice of fundamental change in both computing and our relationship to it that harkens back to the mainframes and network terminals of the 1970s. This is a ...

The very early days of computers consisted of big mainframes in some back room somewhere with terminals connected to that mainframe. That era was ushered out by the PC/workstation revolution. When PCs ...

Can somebody help me with this?Dis is part of my assignment in my institute..<BR><BR>Current Infrastructure<BR>Head−Office<BR>5th Floor − EDP Floor<BR>IBM Mainframe, running MVS and VM operating ...

Following a withdrawal from the mainframe market in 2000, Samsung Electronics is building up its server and workstation businesses. Save my User ID and Password Some subscribers prefer to save their ...

Prices for mainframe computers, those dinosaurs, finally seem to have steadied. The big names in the $19 billion global mainframe market were profitable or approaching the break-even point in the ...