mainframe computer

基本解釋

The machines for sequencing, once the size of a mainframe computer, are becoming smaller and cheaper every year.
進(jìn)行基因排序的機(jī)器以前的尺寸有電腦主機(jī)那般大小，而現(xiàn)在則逐年變小，價(jià)錢(qián)也逐年降低。
In the 1980s, another group of Xerox scientists proposed an even more radical idea: the personal computer was destined, like its predecessor the mainframe computer, for obsolescence.
20世紀(jì)80年代，施樂(lè)研究中心另一組科學(xué)家們提出一種更為顛覆傳統(tǒng)的理念：個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)將像其前身大型計(jì)算機(jī)一樣淘汰。
In 1957, he created the Music program, which allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to play a 17-second music composition.
1957年，他創(chuàng)建了“音樂(lè)”（Music）程序。 IBM的704大型機(jī)用之彈奏了17秒種的音樂(lè)。

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