superminicomputern.
/ˌsuːpəˈmɪnɪkəmˌpjuːtə/, /ˌsjuːpəˈmɪnɪkəmˌpjuːtə/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈmɪnikəmˌpjudər/ Computing. Now historical.
A faster or more powerful minicomputer; spec. one that operates on words of 32 bits rather than 16 bits.
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1969 Sunday Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 16 Nov. f1/2 (heading) Computer Logic Systems, Inc. making super-mini-computer for 1970 market.
1978 Business Week 20 Mar. 164 i/1 In price-performance ratio, the 2020 is up against the company's new super-minicomputer, the VAX 11/780.
1989 C. Stoll Cuckoo's Egg xx. 103 Thirty-two bits meant a big machine, ten MIPS meant fast. He'd entered a super-minicomputer.
2006 H. P. Alesso & C. F. Smith Thinking on Web i. 12 The mid-1980s marked a boom in the personal computer and superminicomputer industries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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