Mainframe
Mainframe is a large, general-purpose computer with extensive memory and high processing speed. Mainframes are enterprise-wide systems that are ideal for transaction processing, financial applications, payroll, investment analysis, weather forecasting, airline reservations, and other applications that require massive computations and large-scale processing.
Category: Management Information System
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