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Many of these ports were originally mainframe computer games. 101 BASIC Computer Games was a best seller with more than 10,000 copies sold, more sales than computers in existence at the time. Its second edition in 1978, BASIC Computer Games, was the first million-selling computer book. As such, the BASIC ports of mainframe computer games ...
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, [1] is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.
The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
Computer games originally played on Mainframe type computers, not home or personal computers (in which case it should be categorized by operating system). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Mainframe computer software (3 C, 18 P) B. Burroughs mainframe computers (12 P) C. Control Data Corporation mainframe computers (1 C, 8 P) D. DEC mainframe computers ...
Web applications talk directly to native mainframe resources without the complexity or expense of middleware. Non-mainframe resources can be accessed via hooks to customized communication programs, using XML or EDI. Since EAGLE is itself a mainframe computer transaction, application pages are created internally and delivered via the Web.
IBM's 36-bit scientific architecture was used for a variety of computation-intensive applications. First machines were the vacuum-tube 704 and 709, followed by the transistorized 7090, 7094, 7094-II, and the lower-cost 7040 and 7044. The ultimate model was the Direct Coupled System (DCS) consisting of a 7094 linked to a 7044 that handled input ...
Mainframe games (1 C, 34 P) I. IBM mainframe software (1 C, 69 P) Pages in category "Mainframe computer software" ... Network Definition Language; Nomad software; R.