Most of us will surely be
thinking of a mainframe as a high-volume , very expensive, and highly
complex computer to operate, all of which is true. In this sense, a mainframe owes its cost and size due to its enormous
processing and storage capacity, necessary to meet the
demands of large companies and state organizations for data analysis and
processing with the best flexibility and reliability.
Mainframes appeared for the first
time when the 1940s began, precisely in the year 1944, when IBM, in conjunction
with Harvard University developed the ASCC, "Automatic Sequence Controlled
Calculator", which was also known as "The Harvard Mark I ”, a
project that began to develop as early as 1939.
IBM was joined over time by
various manufacturers such as Telefunken, Burroughs, Control Data, Siemens,
General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, Olivetti, RCA, UNIVAC and others, who were
launching their own mainframe models, but with the passing of the Years and the
rise of small personal computers , much cheaper and with
multiple advantages, especially for companies with fewer resources, caused
interest in these large computers to decline to its lowest level.
However, today,
mainframes continue to occupy a central space in Business Intelligence
technology and in handling large volumes of data for the largest private and
public companies in the world. In this sense, most of the most successful
companies continue to prefer the solutions provided by mainframes, mainly due
to certain characteristics that mainframes have and are not present
in small desktop computers. Examples of this are availability and
security, in addition to costs, which are high a priori, with the possibilities
offered by these platforms they can be amortized in a timely manner.
It should be noted
that the term “Mainframe”, whose translation into Spanish is “Main
frame”, originally referred at the beginning of its development to the
large cabinets where the different devices that made up these huge computers
were located, such as the Processing Unit central and memory.
It was not until
later that the term Mainframe began to be used to refer to these large,
high-performance computers in order to differentiate them from other
computer systems.
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