:dinosaur pen: n. A traditional {mainframe} computer room complete with
raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air
conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See
{boa}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
raised flooring, special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air
conditioning, and a side order of Halon fire extinguishers. See
{boa}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- dinosaur pen: n. A traditional {mainframe} computer room complete with
raised flooring,
special power, its own ultra-heavy-duty air conditioning... - dinosaur: n. 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special
power.
Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast... - dinosaur n.
1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and
special power.
Used especially of old minis and mainframes, in ... - scram switch: [from the nuclear power industry] n. An
emergency-power-off switch (see {Big Red Switch}),
esp. one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating... - boa: [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor
in a {dinosaur pen}.
Possibly so called because they display a ferocious... - big iron: n. Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers.
Used generally of {number-crunching} supercomputers... - mainframe: n. Term originally referring to the cabinet
containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a
room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine.
After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs... - box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box'
where foo is some functional qualifier,
like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX... - iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of
{mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively
low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern
supercomputers).
Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}...
