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for big iron
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) :
big iron
n.
[common] Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers. Used generally of {
number-crunching supercomputers, but can include more conventional big
commercial IBMish mainframes. Term of approval; compare heavy metal,
oppose dinosaur.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
big iron
heavy metal
(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".
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