BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
COMPUTER SYSTEM TYPES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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False
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True
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In banking, finance, health care, insurance, utilities, government, and a multitude of other public and private enterprises, the mainframe computer continues to be the foundation of modern business.
Detailed explanation-2: -At their core, mainframes are high-performance computers with large amounts of memory and processors that process billions of simple calculations and transactions in real time. The mainframe is critical to commercial databases, transaction servers, and applications that require high resiliency, security and agility.
Detailed explanation-3: -First mainframe – By most measures, the first mainframe computer was the Harvard Mark I. Developed starting in the 1930s, the machine was not ready for use until 1943.