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IBM tries to revive interest in mainframes

Published on
January 19, 2001
Last updated
May 27, 2015

IBM has donated a £2 million S/390 mainframe computer to Warwick University's computer science department in a bid to reawaken students' interest in the technology.

Many students have shunned mainframes as outdated, choosing instead to concentrate on PC-based technologies.

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