> > This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing. Marshall Space > Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe. For > my millennial readers, I suppose that I should define what a mainframe is. > Well, that’s easier said than done, but here goes -- It’s a big > computer that is known for being reliable, highly available, secure, and > powerful. They are best suited for applications that are more > transaction oriented and require a lot of input/output – that is, writing > or reading from data storage devices.
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