Both Uses of
mainframe
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Langdon walked with Sophie down a series of corridors, past several large rooms filled with blinking mainframe computers.†
Chpt 41-42 *
- Gettum typed in a few words: LONDON, KNIGHT, POPE As she clicked the SEARCH button, she could feel the hum of the massive mainframe downstairs scanning data at a rate of 500 MB/sec.†
Chpt 91-92
Definition:
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(mainframe) a powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with many terminals such as the main computer for a bank's transactions