Converse of object

• include: Hence companies or even systems within companies ( including some mainframes ) can work together, exchanging information using a commonly accepted standard protocol.

• use: While working for his physics degree he used a mainframe and during post-graduate work was writing programs in Fortran.

• have: We had an American mainframe that couldn't even do a pound sign.

• access: They illustrate creating plugins, and accessing mainframe attributes through them.

Adjective modifier

• large: The Linux kernel is used right from small embedded devices, scaling up to large mainframes.

• new: The new mainframes could revive a struggling zSeries unit at IBM.

• early: Early mainframes often filled entire rooms with their tubes and tapes performing operations that today's least powerful machines wouldnt blink at.

• old: The old mainframe was archaic; customized programs had been built piecemeal, with no way to share information.

• central: It was not sustainable for Child Health to be kept on a central mainframe.

• big: Big mainframes serving encrypted tunes to passive consumers is a science-fiction fantasy from the Fordist past.

Modifies a noun

• computer: They are linked to their mainframe computer system, with access to benefit records.

• computing: Phoenix ( i ) - formerly the university mainframe computing service.

• system: They are linked to their mainframe computer system, with access to benefit records.

• environment: Mrs Paterson expressed her concern that the mainframe environment may be in place for 5 years.

• host: This of course requires the user to copy them to the mainframe host using the " rcp -b " binary switch.

• application: Just getting data from a mainframe application to a web page is a huge technical feat.

Noun used with modifier

• legacy: In years past, enterprise single sign-on was a desired means for accessing legacy mainframe applications.

• computer: To have knowledge and experience of using computer mainframe and PC application software ( i.e.

• university: Phoenix ( i ) - formerly the university mainframe computing service.

• series: UNIVAC ® Memories - history of UNIVAC 1100 series mainframes.