Back in fashion.

This article explains how and why the computer mainframe has regained popularity. The country of Namibia recently got its first mainframe when the First National Bank of Namibia bought one. The article also mentions that International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is the only remaining big computer...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 394; no. 8665; pp. 64 - 66
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 1/16/2010
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