| These usually take the weight of the cylinders in front or of the firebox at the rear end when the width of this exceeds that of the mainframes. |
| Moreover they are spreadly diffused and, in comparison with mainframes, they allow an easy direct access to system resources. |
| If our experience with water cooled mainframes is anything to go by, the question remains over where the bucket to catch the drips should be placed. |
| Terabytes of storage residing on tape is more economical than residing on mainframes in open systems. |
| To do this, Compaq acquired Tandem Computer, maker of famously reliable mainframes, and then Digital Equipment Corporation, the original maker of minicomputers. |
| There are over 140,000 employees and over 3500 people on PCs and mainframes that I support. |
