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Colloquially referred to as "big iron".

Mainframes are powerful computers engine


ered to have high security and reliability, extensive input and output facilitie
s, support massive throughput and strict backward compatibility with older softw
are. It can run several ooperating systems at the same time that allow it to per
form as not one single computer but as several virtual computers. However proper
planning and implementation is required to exploit these features.

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