mainframe computer

基本解释

The machines for sequencing, once the size of a mainframe computer, are becoming smaller and cheaper every year.
進行基因排序的機器以前的尺寸有電腦主機那般大小，而現在則逐年變小，價錢也逐年降低。
In the 1980s, another group of Xerox scientists proposed an even more radical idea: the personal computer was destined, like its predecessor the mainframe computer, for obsolescence.
20世紀80年代，施樂研究中心另一組科學家們提出一種更爲顛覆傳統的理唸：個人計算機將像其前身大型計算機一樣淘汰。
In 1957, he created the Music program, which allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to play a 17-second music composition.
1957年，他創建了“音樂”（Music）程序。 IBM的704大型機用之彈奏了17秒種的音樂。

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