Saturday 07 January 2012
Big irons - computer world bad boys
Servers racks
Alexis Lê-Quôc/Wikimedia Commons
By Trevor Pinch and Mark Lane

Manufacturers todaycompete to make computers as small as possible. But mainframes - the bad boys of the computer world - are still there. What are they for? And who uses them?

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