Mainframecomputer vs Microcomputer - What's the difference?
mainframecomputer | microcomputer |
(computer hardware) A computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.
* 1956 , Isaac Asimov, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , v 11, July 7, New York: Fantasy House, p 9:
* 1985 , Micro Communications
As a noun microcomputer is
(computer hardware) a computer designed around a microprocessor, smaller than a minicomputer or a mainframe.mainframecomputer
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Mainframecomputer has no English definition. It may be misspelled.microcomputer
English
Noun
(en noun)- In recent years, it had become the hallmark of the scientist, much as the stethoscope was that of the physician and the microcomputer that of the statistician.
- The operation has installed nine Cygnet CoSystems, computerphones that send memos, letters, and even whole files from one microcomputer to another.