How to Use mainframe in a Sentence

mainframe

noun

• Late ‘40s or the early ’50s with a bunch of mainframes.
  — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2023
• Valenciano got to do the honors three years ago, when the city flipped off the switch on the last of its mainframe computers.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• In fact, one of the earliest popular games was a mainframe game called, well, Star Trek.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2019
• Old mainframes still have to be updated to work with new systems.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2018
• There is a reason why IBM mainframes have been designed and produced since 1952.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• This keyboard reminds me of the kind of keyboards that used to be used on mainframe computers.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Pynchon doubted anyone would try to smash the mainframes.
  — WIRED, 22 Oct. 2023
• IBM with mainframes and Microsoft with Windows come to mind.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 May 2017
• But it’s laptops and mainframes that are the foundation of this field moving forward.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2017
• It was intended to replace Forvus, a mainframe system built 50 years ago.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• Big Blue already has transformed itself to software and services provider from a seller of mainframes and PCs.
  — Steven Russolillo, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2017
• But even those numbers don’t capture the full extent of job losses in the state, in part because a 43-year-old mainframe computer cannot keep up.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
• The mounting bolts that secure the axle assembly to the mainframe structure of the brush chipper may not have been tightened properly.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021
• The mainframe refresh had played a significant role in helping IBM to return to revenue growth a year ago.
  — Jay Greene, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
• Only one statistical test per day could be run on the massive IBM mainframe.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Until then, software had not been viewed as a patentable product and was bundled into hulking mainframes like those made by IBM.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• Back in the 1960s, the dominant model was mainframe computing.
  — Ravi Mayuram, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Many of his days were spent recording data using a mainframe computer that took up an entire room.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• Like the old-fashioned mainframe computers of a half-century ago, the QuEra machine can handle just one job at a time, so each user will have to wait his turn.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
• And we‘ve seen that as mainframes came and went only to see network computing rise in the nineteen nineties, only to submerge and reemerge as cloud computing ...
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
• The company will build a new unemployment system to replace the current mainframe, which is over 50 years old.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2021
• The world was very different then; computers were limited to mainframes, and the cost of memory to hold a single song was $1 million.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 12 June 2017
• These daunting customer-service demands have pushed airlines to automate since the dawn of mainframes.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
• The list of Trump’s failings can hardly be categorized on a mainframe computer, but the Democratic Party seems to be looking for a way to lose to Trump.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 June 2019
• Every Android phone, over 96% of all web servers, the largest share of mainframe computers, and some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world all run Linux.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• The fourth quarter was the first full three-month period in which IBM’s latest generation of mainframe computers were on sale.
  — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
• That makes four frame members: the mainframe, lower link/chainstay, rear triangle/seatstay, and upper link.
  — Seb Stott, Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2022
• Each objective carries its own set of requirements and implications for whether the data is best positioned on the mainframe or in the cloud.
  — Milan Shetti, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• But rather than adding complexity to the drama, these recollections give the mainframe narrative a halting rhythm that lessens the suspense.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2024
• By the end of this year, FedEx will close all of the company’s data centers and retire all of the company’s mainframe computers to save $400 million in annual savings.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 22 May 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024