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big iron

n.
a large, mainframe computer. (Computers. See also iron.) : We'll have to run this job on the big iron over at the university.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

big iron jargon
(Or "heavy metal [Cambridge]) Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of number crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes. The term implies approval, in contrast to "dinosaur".
[The Jargon File]
(2000-11-09)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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