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Yes, mainframes are Peripheral
eis5 20th Jan 2009
If by 'peripheral' you mean managing billions of transactions a day, petabytes of online disk storage, and the day-to-day back office operations of the largest companies in the world with security and reliability statistics unmatched by any other platform, then yes, I guess mainframes are 'peripheral'. Perhaps your definition of 'mainstream computing' refers to editing MS Word documents and checking out Facebook profiles.
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