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Mainframes and Personal Computers
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Mainframes and personal computers have evolved over the years but their core functions have stayed the same. The mainframe is used connect multiple users for large organizations while personal computers are generally used for a single users. The more drastic changes for mainframes and personal computers have been speed and size. Mainframes use to be the size of buildings. Now they are the size of a textbook. Personal computer's origins came from the dumb terminal. The dumb terminal was used just to access the mainframe. Then, the idea came to off load some of the processing from the mainframe and place it on your desktop.
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The hardware is very similar between the mainframe and personal computer. Their architecture has stayed the same over the years. Only the complexity has changed but we have the same components. They both have processors, storage, memory, operating systems, and displays.
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