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                                                                  Mainframe

Mainframes are very powerful computers used to provide computer services and resources to workstations connected to it.

The workstations connected to a mainframe are usually of thin client type.

Mainframes are used in big organizations and institutes to carry out intensive calculations,like statistics calculations,and several hundred workstations could be connected to a single mainframe.  















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