In the frame for another 50 years?

Doug Woodburn
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As IBM's mainframe celebrates half a century of life, we look back on how it transformed modern computing and ask what the future holds

To the casual observer, The Beatles and the IBM mainframe computer may have little in common, with the latter more about processing power than flower power. But take a closer look and a number o...

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