| 释义 |
superminicomputer, n. Computing.
Brit. |ˌs(j)uːpəˈmɪnikəmˌpjuːtə|, U.S. |ˌsupərˈmɪnikəmˌpjudə|
[‹ super- prefix + minicomputer n. Compare slightly earlier supermini n.2]
A faster or more powerful minicomputer, spec. one operating on units or words of 32 bits rather than 16 bits.
1978Business Week (Nexis) 20 Mar. 164 i/1 In price-performance ratio, the 2020 is up against the company's new super-minicomputer, the VAX 11/780. 1989C. Stoll Cuckoo's Egg xx. 103 Thirty-two bits meant a big machine, ten MIPS meant fast. He'd entered a super-minicomputer. 1999Computerworld (Nexis) 19 July 84 When the VAX 11/780 hit the market, it created a huge demand for the so-called superminicomputer. ‘It was the first 32-bit, large-address, fast computer that could compete with almost any of the mainframes,’ Bell says. |