Mini COMPUTER

Mini COMPUTER:- A minicomputer, a term no more quite utilized, is a PC of a size moderate between a microcomputer and a centralized computer. Commonly, minicomputers have been stand-alone PCs (PC frameworks with joined terminals and different gadgets) sold to little and medium size organizations for general business applications and to huge ventures for division level operations. As of late, the minicomputer has advanced into the "mid-range server" and is a piece of a system. IBM's AS/400e is a decent illustration. minicomputer fills the space between the centralized server and microcomputer, and is littler than the previous yet bigger than the recent. Minicomputers are basically utilized as little or midrange servers working business and investigative applications. Notwithstanding, the utilization of the term minicomputer has decreased and has converged with servers. Minicomputers developed in the mid-1960s and were initially grown by IBM Corporation. They were basically intended for business applications and administrations that require the execution and effectiveness of centralized computer PCs. Minicomputers are for the most part utilized as mid-extent servers, where they can work fair sized programming applications and backing various clients all the while.

An average sized PC. In size and force, minicomputers lie in the middle of workstations and centralized computers. In the previous decade, the qualification between huge minicomputers and little centralized servers has obscured, then again, as has the refinement between little minicomputers and workstations. Anyhow, by and large, a minicomputer is a multiprocessing framework fit for supporting from 4 to around 200 clients all the while.


E.g.:- Digital Equipments PDP 11/45 and VAX 11)
  ⦁    Perform better than micros.
  ⦁    Large in size and costlier than micros.
  ⦁     Designed to support more than one user at a time.
  ⦁    Posses large storage capacities and operates at higher speed.
  ⦁    Support faster peripheral devices like high speed printers.
  ⦁    Can also communicate with main frames.

Applications
  ⦁    These computers are used when the volume of processing is large for e.g. Data processing for a medium sized organization.
  ⦁    Used to control and monitor production processes.
  ⦁    To analyze results of experiments in laboratories.
  ⦁    Used as servers in LANs (Local Area Networks).