But what if your office doesn't have a mainframe on the net?
If you can use a modem to connect your home PC to the mainframe at the office and the mainframe is on the net, then you can get an Internet connection that way.
The ICP logo on the front of its desktop and portable computers makes them mentally compatible with its mainframe computers.
What if DNI's mainframe was used to set up a global trading network?
I've got that NEC mainframe out there programmed for weeks of trading.
The mainframe just kept dialing each number till somebody picked up.
We're going to organize these terminals, hook them to your computer, and then direct that network against the mainframe downstairs.
In the far back was a massive NEC augmented supercomputer--a half dozen off-white octagonal units about head high, one the mainframe and the others storage modules arranged alongside in a neat row.
Tam's program was poised inside the mainframe like some lurking id, ready to be unleashed.
They had hundreds of dial-up numbers for government agencies that they'd gotten through scanning Atlanta phones, or had pulled from raided VAX/VMS mainframe computers.
Fry Guy had filched the log-in of a local MacDonald's manager and had logged-on to the MacDonald's mainframeon the Sprint Telenet system.
This in the AIMSX system on a mainframe computer in Atlanta, available to hundreds of people, but all of them, presumably, BellSouth employees.
But if people are employed to run, say, a UNIX mainframe or a VAX/VMS machine, then they tend to learn security from the inside out.
He'd started his hacking career at around age 14, meddling with a UNIX mainframe system at the University of North Carolina.
UNIX was traditionally run only on mainframe machines, owned by large groups of suit-and-tie professionals, rather than on bedroom machines where people can get up to easy mischief.
Jolnet also ran UNIX, and could be contacted at high speed by mainframe machines from all over the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mainframe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.