Retrocomputing often gets its start when a computer user realizes that formerly expensive fantasy systems like IBM Mainframes, DEC Superminis, SGI workstations and Cray Supercomputers have become affordable on the used computer market, usually in a relatively short time after the computers ' era of use.

Mainframes, despite their reliability, possess so much data that precautions need to be taken to protect the information they hold and the integrity of the system.

Mainframes are defined by high availability, one of the main reasons for their longevity, since they are typically used in applications where downtime would be costly or catastrophic.

* Mainframes are built to be reliable for transaction processing as it is commonly understood in the business world: a commercial exchange of goods, services, or money.

Mainframes are designed to handle very high volume input and output ( I / O ) and emphasize throughput computing.

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Mainframes can add or hot swap system capacity without disrupting system function, with specificity and granularity to a level of sophistication not usually available with most server solutions.

* Mainframes are measured in millions of instructions per second ( MIPS ) while assuming typical instructions are integer operations, but supercomputers are measured in floating point operations per second ( FLOPS ) and more recently by traversed edges per second or TEPS.

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Mainframes and some early microprocessors such as the RCA 1802 required several instructions to call a subroutine.

* Serving more than 7, 000 users, the Computer Centre research and teaching facilities include five computer labs ( classrooms ) with a total of 236 Pentium MMX systems, used either as terminals to the Mainframes ( IRIX and VMS ) or as Windows NT workstations.

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They have also led the nation in the direction of a welfare state.

But where we have both dark and light we have also the inexplicable.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

He has also enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer ( his records have sold in the millions ) and is a sharp businessman.

He caused a lot of talk when he also chose the breakfast hour to have the barber come in and trim his hair while he ate.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;

I also had and have feelings about Garibaldi.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

And the pitching will also have trouble doing better.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

The scientists have also warned that no life above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter.

We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.

I have done all this for the freedom of the individuals concerned and also for the states which have been threatened by Communist domination.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

He was also involved in the execution of the " Martyrs of Córdoba ".

While both and combination are commonly implemented as a way of breaking the execution of a console application, they are also used for similar effect in integrated development environments.

It also makes hazard-avoiding techniques like branch prediction, speculative execution, and out-of-order execution crucial to maintaining high levels of performance.

Shortly after inclusion of floating point execution units started to become commonplace in general-purpose processors, specifications for and implementations of SIMD execution units also began to appear for general-purpose CPUs.

King Ashoka also extended the period before execution of those condemned to death so they could make a final appeal for their lives.

A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.

The lecture also gives a sort of insight to what Jesus may have be feeling during the execution from the whippings and beatings, to the crown of thorns, to the nailing on the cross.

The term " deed ", also known in this context as a " specialty ", is common to signed written undertakings not supported by consideration: the seal ( even if not a literal wax seal but only a notional one referred to by the execution formula, " signed, sealed and delivered ", or even merely " executed as a deed ") is deemed to be the consideration necessary to support the obligation.

Operation Torch also served as a valuable training ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills ; during the initial phase of Erwin Rommel's move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ranks by some interference with the execution of battle plans by his subordinates.

A DBMS also needs to provide effective run-time execution to properly support ( e. g., in terms of performance, availability, and security ) as many database end-users as needed.

In computer engineering, an execution unit ( also called a functional unit ) is a part of a CPU that performs the operations and calculations called for by the Branch Unit, which receives data from the CPU.

The term is also used to denote a specific plan of action, or its execution, under a particular set of circumstances faced by either team.

The brothers betrayal and execution are also mentioned in the book.

As with the women, male gymnasts are also judged on all of their events, for their execution, degree of difficulty, and overall presentation skills.

It also excludes functions that depend on the memory address of the object being hashed, because that address may change during execution ( as may happen on systems that use certain methods of garbage collection ), although sometimes rehashing of the item is possible.

There were calls for the execution of the " ringleaders " in the major Irish nationalist daily newspaper, the Irish Independent, and local authorities also sought the ringleaders.

Even then, the form of execution used for witches in England ( unlike Scotland and Continental Europe ) was hanging, burning being reserved for those also convicted of treason.

After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800, 000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1. 7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390, 000 deaths during kulak forced resettlementwith a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.

" Jahangir ordered his execution, but it is unlikely that he also ordered Guru Arjun to be tortured and converted, for two reasons ; one, because we have no other examples from Jahangir's generally tolerant reign to support the idea that he forced people to convert to Islam, and two, because Jahangir makes no note of Guru Arjun's torture, yet cheerfully describes the torture of two other rebels, as well as Guru Arjun's execution.

They also argued that crucifixion was a standard form of execution in ancient times and not just one especially reserved for Jesus.

In operating systems, the execution of the executable can be postponed if other executables ( a. k. a. processes ) are also executing.

" Mr. Thomas Scott, who had been so much deluded by the hypocrosy of Monk ... said: ' That though he knew not where to hide his head at that time, yet he durst not refuse to own, that not only his hand, but his heart also was in it ' and after he had produced divers reasons to prove the justice of it, he concluded, ' that he should desire no greater honor in this world, than that the folloing inscritption might be engraved on his tomb ; " Here lies one who had a hand and a heart in the execution of Charles Stuart late King of England.