Clarence1898 escreveu:
> All company information is kept on mainframe disks and maintained by mainframe
> programs.  All customer information, product information, personnel information,
> sales information etc.  This company started in the early 1900s selling its
> merchandise from a store.  Then expanding sales to mail order catalog, then via
> telemarketing, and now by internet.  The web front-end is handled by a small
> server farm, but all back-end work is done on our mainframe.

in other words:  mainframes were never supercomputers.  They were 
commerce-oriented machines rather than scientific number-crunchers.

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