Mainframe Glossary Term (original) (raw)

	Glossary of Printing Terms 1ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Mainframe A class of large and expensive computers that can manage a large number of users at once (several thousand). A mainframe is a "central" computer used for many tasks and can support many programs simultaneous. If super computers are at the top of the scale, then mainframes are at the next notch below them.