— -- They are the dinosaurs of the computer industry. But anyone who thinks mainframe computers are going the way of typewriters and videocassette recorders is in for a surprise. "Big Iron," as ...

Alexander Barket and John Borak, programmers who in 1976 wrote Honk, a program that allowed users to post anonymous electronic messages on a Honeywell mainframe computer. First, it’s probably best ...

The work is fulfilling, the tools are state-of-the-art, and demand for mainframe-literate developers has never been greater If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry buzz ...

The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

IBM z/OS 3.2 will be the cornerstone of the z17 mainframe and includes support for the Big Iron's new AI acceleration technologies. IBM today introduced the next release of z/OS, which promises to ...

A 22-year-old senior at the University of North Texas was the first woman in the U.S. to win an IBM mainframe coding competition. Anne McKee started coding just three years ago with a class at a local ...