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单词 big iron
释义

big iron

noun

variants or Big Iron
computing
: large mainframe computers
… it will wither as most customers find the courage to shift to so-called client-server systems, which are networks of smaller computers. When that happens, other IBM businesses that depend on big iron will also decline. Stratford Sherman, Fortune, 3 Oct. 1994
Next month, several large companies will lead the charge back to big iron in an attempt to rescue unwieldy or stalled client-server projects. Martin J. Garvey, Information Week, 7 July 1997
A few years ago the big iron would almost certainly have been provided by the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard or Digital Equipment Corp. Eric Nee, Forbes, 12 Jan. 1998

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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