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Large, expensive, and very fast computers used either for number crunching or DataBase serving. The term implies approval, in contrast to [Dinosaur]. |
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Originally referring to supercomputers like the Crays, the term became more and more inclusive as processing power become more and more of a commodity. It first expanded to include [MainFrame]s such as those built by [IBM], and nowadays is sometimes also applied to very expensive [x86] hardware -- usually large-scale [SMP] machines with large [RAID] arrays. |
