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How the Main Frame Became the Mainframe: an Etymological Dissertation
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; alt=""/>In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/
<img width="800" height="250" src="
; alt=""/>In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/