Q. Explain Basic working of Mainframes?
Mainframe computers are normally 32-bit machines or higher. These are suited to large organizations, to manage high volume applications. Few of well known mainframe series were DEC, IBM, HP, ICL, etc. Mainframes can also be used as central host computers in distributed systems. Libraries of application programs were developed for mainframe computers are much larger than those of the mini or microcomputers due to their evolution over various decades as families of computing. All these aspects and many more create the mainframe computers indispensable even with popularity of microcomputers.