Overview#

Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers are larger and have more processing power than some other classes of computers:

• minicomputers
• servers
• workstations
• personal computers.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Abstraction
• Access Control Facility
• External Security Managers (ESM)
• Floating-point
• Monolithic Architecture
• Multiple Virtual Storage
• XACML

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• [#1] - Mainframe_computer - based on information obtained 2018-07-17-