midrange

Historically, midrange computers have been sold to small to medium-sized businesses as their main computer and to larger enterprises for branch or department-level operations. Makers of popular midrange computer lines include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. Today's computers are almost universally known as servers to recognize that they often "serve" applications to end users at "client" computers, that they use a client/server computing model, and, by inference (since the client/server model developed in UNIX-based operating systems), that they support standard rather than proprietary programming interfaces.

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To explore how midrange is used in the enterprise, here are some additional resources:

Expert Answers: Using remote AS400 commands in a Windows environment.

Learning Guide: Steps to secure System i.

Read more about midrange: - Search/400.com is a resource center focused on IBM's AS/400 line of midrange servers.

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