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    Mainframes are powerful multi-user computers capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously and processing large amounts of data at very high speeds. They use their power to execute many programs concurrently, whereas supercomputers focus all their power on executing a few programs as fast as possible. Mainframes support multi-user facilities, multiple I/O and storage devices, and have RAM ranging from 50 megabytes to over one gigabyte. They are used for commercial, scientific and military applications involving massive data and complex computations.

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    Mainframes are powerful multi-user computers capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously and processing large amounts of data at very high speeds. They use their power to execute many programs concurrently, whereas supercomputers focus all their power on executing a few programs as fast as possible. Mainframes support multi-user facilities, multiple I/O and storage devices, and have RAM ranging from 50 megabytes to over one gigabyte. They are used for commercial, scientific and military applications involving massive data and complex computations.

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    MAINFRAME

    MIPS:Millions of Instructions per second

    ·A powerful multi-user computer capable of supporting many hundreds or thousands of users


    simuttaneously.

    Manframes are just below supercomputers.

    The chief difference between a supercomputer and a mainframe is that a supercomputer channels all Its
    power into executing a few programs as fast as possible. Whereas a mainframe uses its power to
    execute many programs concurrently.

    E.g.:-IBM 3000 senies.Burroughs B7900.Univac 1180,DEC

    MAINFRAME

    ·MIPS:millions of instructions per second

    ·Largest enterprise computer

    ·Able to process large amount of data at very high speed

    ·Supports multi-user facility

    ·Supports many I/O and auxiliary storage devices

    ·50 megabytes to over one gigabyte ram

    ·Commercial, scientific,military applications

    ·Massive data

    ·Complicated computations

    MICROCOMPUTER

    ·Desktop or portable

    ·They are designed to be used by only one person at a time

    ·Amicrocomputer uses a microprocessor as its central processing unit.Microcomputers are tiny


    computers that can vary in size from a single chip to the size of a desktop model

    ·Personal or business computers

    ·Affordable

    ·Many available components

    ·Can be networked

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