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Smart Computing Article - Mainframe To Mainstream
generations. A prototype of sorts was Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, partially constructed in the 19th century, but it would take the rise of electronics to advance the science beyond simple adding machines. During World War II, vacuum. Smart Computing Article - Mainframe To Mainstream. Subscribe
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Smart Computing Article - Phoning Home
on the road. The need to connect one computer to another has been around almost as long as computers. Before the advent of the personal computer, companies maintained large mainframes that connected to various terminals throughout the office. Employees used a terminal to work with the mainframe. The PC
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Smart Computing Article - EMM to End-User License Agreement (EULA)
hardware like printers and modems. Terminal emulation programs make a computer act as a terminal on a mainframe computer. This lets users access mainframes and bulletin board services from other types of computers, including PCs. The VT100, a video terminal popular in the 1980s, is an example of a type
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Case Study: Highly-Sensitive Data Center Uses Avocent Technology
exciting. 'Space requirements for main-frame computers continue to decrease. In practice, space requirements for client-server modules are increasing much more rapidly than those for main-frames and sub-systems,” said Wolfgang Guth, responsible for the planning and monitoring of about 300 servers
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Case Study: HESS Corporation
HESS increasingly depends on technology to support oil exploration and production. When the company first transitioned from mainframe to blade server technology for its most intense processing tasks, the raised floor system provided adequate but limited cooling. Liebert Case Study - HESS
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Smart Computing Article - I/O to ICQ
employees and grossed $8.3 billion. In 1964, IBM was credited with coining the term word processing. That same year, the company introduced its System/360, a mainframe computer family in which each mainframe was compatible with one another, a first for mainframes. In 1967, the company constructed
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Smart Computing Article - Hosiden to Hz
Host Integration Server is a product that helps turn a computer server into a host. While the term host has several different definitions, in the widest sense it is a piece of computing equipment that serves other equipment. A mainframe host, for instance, is a large mainframe computer that serves
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Case Study: Norton Healthcare
Located in the basement of a 95-year-old hotel building, Norton Healthcare's data center was designed in the 1970s to support mainframe computers. When Norton inherited the data center in the 1980s, the facility sufficiently supported the healthcare network's two software applications, but 25 years